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* problems with copy
@ 2007-09-25 00:38 chester c young <chestercyoung@yahoo.com>
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From: chester c young @ 2007-09-25 00:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-sql
I'm getting lots of delimited files from Excel and MySQL users that,
mid-file, begin truncating lines if ending in null values.
for example:
1781: "one","two","three",,,,,,
1782: "one","two","three",,
1783: "one","two","three",,
(delimited files from Open Office are well behaved)
is there any way to handle this apparently standard aberration in PG?
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* Re: problems with copy
@ 2007-09-28 16:21 Luis Carlos Ferreira <lcf@tuxedo.com.ar>
parent: chester c young <chestercyoung@yahoo.com>
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From: Luis Carlos Ferreira @ 2007-09-28 16:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-sql
El Lun 24 Sep 2007 21:38, chester c young escribió:
> I'm getting lots of delimited files from Excel and MySQL users that,
> mid-file, begin truncating lines if ending in null values.
>
> for example:
> 1781: "one","two","three",,,,,,
> 1782: "one","two","three",,
> 1783: "one","two","three",,
>
> (delimited files from Open Office are well behaved)
>
> is there any way to handle this apparently standard aberration in PG?
>
You need to normalize the csv files filtering its contents with some script
...
...
$fields_in_table=9;
while (<>) {
chomp;
@f=split(",");
for $i ( 0 .. $fields_in_table ) {
print $f[$i].",";
};
print "\n";
};
...
...
--
Luis
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