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Re: How to import CSV file?


  • From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • To: Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com>
  • Cc: Chris Hoover <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com>, 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 15:34:42 -0400
  • Message-id: <1966.1188329682@sss.pgh.pa.us> <text/plain>

Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com> writes:
> 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.

> Probably you want to try something like:
> COPY foo FROM '/tmp/foo' WITH CSV QUOTE AS '\'';

Actually I'd recommend WITH CSV QUOTE AS '''' ... the backslash syntax
is nonstandard and will bite you eventually.  Doubled quote works in
every version of PG.

			regards, tom lane



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