Can you not export the source file with escape characters? ie, ^17\" Alloy Wheels^
~p On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 11:25 +0900, Paul Lambert wrote: > I have a procedure in place that copies data from a caret delimited text > file into a table storing some information. > > One of the fields in the table contains an item description which may > contain item dimensions such as - 17" alloy wheels > > The problem I am getting when I do my load is I believe due to the > presence of the double quotation marks giving the copy the impression > that it is to include the information following as a single text string > until it gets to the next set of double quotes. As a result, I get the > following: > > AutoDRS=# COPY deal_lines_temp_load FROM > 'c:/temp/autodrs_deal_lines.txt' > WITH DELIMITER AS '^' CSV HEADER; > ERROR: value too long for type character varying(30) > CONTEXT: COPY deal_lines_temp_load, line 87, column order_desc: "17 5 > spoke alloy wheels.^1291.18^117.38^983.69^1291.18^^C^^ > > The column as you can see is defined as a 30 character field, the load > contains in this column ^17" 5 spoke alloy wheels.^ > > I note an option in the COPY command to specify the quote character, > defaulting to double quote. The problem being a single quote will also > be used in the data, as will other characters. Is there any way to get a > copy to have no quote character? I.e. read the file and put whatever is > between the caret characters straight into the appropriate field exactly > as is. > > TIA, > Paul. > Phillip Smith IT Coordinator Weatherbeeta P/L 8 Moncrief Rd Nunawading, Vic, 3131 AUSTRALIA P. +613 9845 0600 F. +613 9845 0655 E. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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