On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 19:25, Kevin Bartz wrote:
> Thanks, guys. sed took a couple hours, but it's all done now, and the data
> are loaded. I still like Postgres!
ya know, there's an easier way (imnsho):
just import it into a text field, then update the real field with
update table tablename set realfield = substring(tempfield,1,20)
Not sure it'd be any faster, but hey, it's pretty simple to do.