The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 4486 Logged by: Andrew Grillet Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.3 Operating system: Windows XP Description: CSV feature request Details:
Excel 2007 decides on the fly whether to quote fields or not on the basis of whther individual rows have a comma in that field. There does not appear any obvious way to prevent this bizarre behaviour. I suggest the syntax: COPY table (columns) FROM 'filename.csv. with csv OPTIONAL QUOTE [AS '"']; As a way to tell PostgreSQL this behaviour is expected and must be handled without complaint. Default should be to complain if file is stupidly formatted. ---- Additionally, where a character that is not a member of the acceptable character set is found, plese attempt to print it as char as well as octal/hex. It can be very difficult to find which character is causeing the problem! (Eg em-dashes, smart quotes) -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
