On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Oliver Vecernik wrote:
> Hi again!
>
> After investigating a little bit further my CSV import couldn't work
> because of following reasons:
>
> 1. CSV files are delimited with CR/LF
See below
> 2. text fields are surrounded by double quotes
in vi
:1,$ s/"//g
>
> Is there a direct way to import such files into PostgreSQL?
>
> I would like to have something like MySQL provides:
>
> LOAD DATA [LOW_PRIORITY | CONCURRENT] [LOCAL] INFILE 'file_name.txt'
> [REPLACE | IGNORE]
> INTO TABLE tbl_name
> [FIELDS
> [TERMINATED BY '\t']
> [[OPTIONALLY] ENCLOSED BY '']
> [ESCAPED BY '\\' ]
> ]
> [LINES TERMINATED BY '\n']
make it
[LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n']
> [IGNORE number LINES]
> [(col_name,...)]
>
> Has anybody written such a function already?
>
> Regards,
> Oliver
>
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