On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 19:18 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > I agree that ignoring extra columns is a bad idea, but I don't even > like the idea of ignoring missing columns. It doesn't seem like a > good idea to take a spreadsheet and feed it into COPY without doing > any validation anyway, and this is the kind of thing that is trivial > to clean up with a thin layer of Perl or your scripting language of > choice.
I would think that a spreadsheet application has some kind of control over its export format, too. Perhaps you can just tell it to export only the first N columns? -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
