"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Feedback from someone else looking to the problem last year. IIRC there >> was a feeling that if we didn't have to search for delimiters the COPY >> FROM input parsing could be easier. > > Of what use is the above comment? You have to parse the input into > fields somehow.
Well those two requirements aren't inconsistent if you're using fixed-width input text files. Not that I'm enamoured of such file formats, just saying. The only file formats I ever wanted when I was doing this kind of stuff is tab separated, all the others (comma separated and (egads) *pipe* separated?!) are just disasters. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
