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From: Harald Fuchs <hf0217x@protecting.net>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: request for help with COPY syntax
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:19:26 +0200
Message-ID: <puejfkzx7l.fsf@srv.protecting.net> (raw)
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In article <200710240059.04348.pgsql-list@nullmx.com>,
"Chuck D." <pgsql-list@nullmx.com> writes:

> On October 23, 2007 08:51:18 pm you wrote:
>> 
>> I got it to work with your sample data by using the COPY command as
>> follows: COPY geo.orig_city_maxmind
>> FROM '/home/www/geo/DATA/MAXMIND.com/cities_no_header.txt'
>> CSV quote as '''';


> I see what you are after and you solved the syntax problem I was having, but 
> now I get the same error on a different line:

> ad,l'aldosa,L'Aldosa,02,42.5833333,1.6333333

> I guess it considers that line quoted now.  In other words, some lines may 
> have both single and double quotes involved, like this:

> kz,otdeleniye imeni dvadtsat' vtorogo parts"yezda,Otdeleniye Imeni Dvadtsat' 
> Vtorogo Parts"yezda,10,41.47,69.1280556

> Is there any way to tell Postgresql that a CSV file has no quotes around each 
> field, and that each field may have single or double quotes or both?

Can't you just say

  COPY geo.orig_city_maxmind
  FROM '/home/www/geo/DATA/MAXMIND.com/cities_no_header.txt'
  DELIMITER ','

?




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