From: Andrej Ricnik-Bay <andrej.groups@gmail.com>
To: Paul Lambert <paul.lambert@autoledgers.com.au>
Cc: Phillip Smith <phillip.smith@weatherbeeta.com.au>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Issue with copying data from a text file.
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:53:04 +1200
Message-ID: <b35603930703191953g73e0e28bl3012e7b6836ba780@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On 3/20/07, Paul Lambert <paul.lambert@autoledgers.com.au> wrote:
> The source file comes from extracts on our main application which sits
> inside an in-house pretending-to-be-a-dbms file system. The content of
> these extracts would be difficult to change - the extract program would
> need to parse the data looking for quotes and preceed them with the
> necessary escape character.
>
> Not being a proper database dump it's not a simple matter of flicking a
> switch to get it to include the escape character. The way the extracts
> are written would require a few dozen lines of code to each extract, and
> theres about 40ish extracts.
>
> Plus I don't maintain that side of our code, and those that do can be a
> bit lazy and I'd likely be waiting months to get it done - if they even
> decide to do it.
Pipe it through sed and replace the Carets with TABS?
sed 's/^/\t/g' c:/temp/autodrs_deal_lines.txt > c:/temp/autodrs_deal_lines.tab
Then use copy like so:
\copy table from 'c:/temp/autodrs_deal_lines.tab' delimiter E'\t' null ''
Cheers,
Andrej
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