On October 25, 2007 09:22:10 pm Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Did the sed actually do anything? (Hint: the file size of
> geonames_fixed.txt would be larger than geonames.txt if it did.
> Or you could diff the two files to confirm that something sensible
> happened.)
>
> I suspect that your shell may be fou
On October 25, 2007 09:22:10 pm you wrote:
> Did the sed actually do anything? (Hint: the file size of
> geonames_fixed.txt would be larger than geonames.txt if it did.
> Or you could diff the two files to confirm that something sensible
> happened.)
>
> I suspect that your shell may be fouling th
On October 25, 2007 03:16:59 pm Fernando Hevia wrote:
>
> As I understand it when a line starts with $ you would like to merge it
> with the previous line.
>
No, it appears the data file I am attempting to COPY has some records with
fields that contain a CR/LF in the data of that field. Postgres
On October 25, 2007 10:57:49 am you wrote:
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> If all you just want to do is strip out the ^M, you can run dos2unix on
> it, assuming that you are running a *nix distro.
Well, I guess I could strip the ^M but I'm still left with a $ in the middle
of a field which in the same as the line terminato
On October 25, 2007 09:35:23 am Chuck D. wrote:
> On October 24, 2007 01:10:59 am Paul Lambert wrote:
> > I get around this problem with my data loads by specifying some other
> > arbitrary character that I know won't appear in the data as the quote
> > character.
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On October 24, 2007 01:10:59 am Paul Lambert wrote:
>
> I get around this problem with my data loads by specifying some other
> arbitrary character that I know won't appear in the data as the quote
> character.
>
> Eg QUOTE E'\f' will specify form feed as the quote character, ergo any
> data with d
On October 23, 2007 10:44:51 am you wrote:
> Hi Chuck,
> Do you need those characters in your table? If not I think you will be
> better off preprocessing the data before running copy.
>
> Replacing those " for ' or directly removing them is quite simple if you
> are working in Unix, actually it sh
On October 23, 2007 08:51:18 pm you wrote:
>
> I got it to work with your sample data by using the COPY command as
> follows: COPY geo.orig_city_maxmind
> FROM '/home/www/geo/DATA/MAXMIND.com/cities_no_header.txt'
> CSV quote as ;
I see what you are after and you solved the syntax
Greetings everyone,
I'm having some trouble with COPY syntax.
I'm importing the cities data from MaxMind, but I run into errors when the
data adds a double quote inside a field.
The data is CSV, comma delimited, no quotes around fields, ISO-8859-1. I'm
using COPY with the defaults and setting
