Andrew, * Andrew Dunstan (and...@dunslane.net) wrote: > See the discussion back around the the 8.1 release (IIRC) when we > added the HEADER option.
I recall seeing it and not agreeing with it then. :) > >If I wanted something to throw away the first record of a file before > >loading it, I'd use tail. > > The whole point of us having direct CSV import is to minimise the > requirement for preprocessing. Having a 'throw away 1 line' option is just silly to me, but documenting it as "header" is worse. Water under the bridge at this point though. > That said, I think there's probably a good case for an option to use > the header line as a column list. I know of at least one application > I have written that could benefit from it. But that's work for 9.2 > or later. I agree it's work for 9.2. I could probably help with this if people agree that it should be done. Thanks, Stephen
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