On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Daniel Verite <dan...@manitou-mail.org> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > If someone can make a good case that this is going to be of > > general use I'll happily go along, but I haven't seen one so far. > > About COPY FROM with a raw format, for instance just yesterday > there was this user question on stackoverflow: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36317237 > > which essentially is: how to import contents from a file without any > particular interpretation of any character? > > With the patch discussed in this thread, a user can do > \copy table(textcol) from /path/to/file (format raw) > What is needed to solve this specific use-case is a way to specify "QUOTE NONE" instead of the default for whatever format is being hijacked: COPY file_content FROM '/tmp/textfile.txt' WITH (FORMAT csv, QUOTE E'<unprintable character that should never appear in the data>'); becomes COPY file_content FROM '/tmp/textfile.txt' WITH (FORMAT csv, QUOTE NONE); Or maybe: "WITH (FORMAT single_column)" Though maybe that doesn't extend well to unencoded binary data...which seems like it can be considered a separate problem from reliably importing an entire file into a single row+column in a table. David J.
