On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 08:36:50PM +0200, Pierre-Fr?d?ric Caillaud wrote: > > You can have your script make a query in the database to fetch the > data types of the fields and then know which ones are to be transformed > and how. The script would take as arguments a dump file and a > database,schema.table, would read the file and pipe the transformed data > into a psql with a COPY FROM stdin command... could save you a lot of work > no ?
That's a good idea, and it would mean not having to hack PostgreSQL or create custom types or custom input functions for standard types. -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
