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Re: How to import CSV file?


  • From: Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com>
  • To: Chris Hoover <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com>
  • Cc: Medi Montaseri <montaseri(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org Admin" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: How to import CSV file?
  • Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:11:16 -0700 (PDT)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708281109470.31586@discord.home.frostconsultingllc.com> <text/plain>

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Chris Hoover wrote:

Why go through all of this when COPY can handle this for you?  All I need to
know is the syntax to tell copy that the strings are quoted by a single
quote.

Check out the docs here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-copy.html

Probably you want to try something like:

COPY foo FROM '/tmp/foo' WITH CSV QUOTE AS '\'';

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