Hi,
I have a tab delimited file with over a thousand fields (columns)
which I would like to import into postgreSQL.
I have opted to import the entire record (line) of this file into a
single field in a table, one table record per file line. Later split
the contents of the field accordingly into an array for further
processing and decomposition.
I am using the COPY command as follows
#COPY a.t(raw_data)FROM '/data/tmp/t.txt';
and it reports "ERROR: extra data after last expected column".
#COPY a.t(raw_data)FROM '/data/tmp/t.txt' WITH FORMAT text;
yields "ERROR: syntax error at or near "FORMAT"
I am running PostgreSQL 9.1.1 compiled from source and deployed on
Fedora Core 14 64bit. Below is the output of version();
m=> SELECT VERSION();
version
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 9.1.1 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC)
4.4.5 20101112 (Red Hat 4.4.5-2), 64-bit
(1 row)
Allan.
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