| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Ragged CSV import |
| Date: | 2009-09-10 08:24:09 |
| Message-ID: | 1252571049.9102.0.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com |
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On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 19:18 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> I agree that ignoring extra columns is a bad idea, but I don't even
> like the idea of ignoring missing columns. It doesn't seem like a
> good idea to take a spreadsheet and feed it into COPY without doing
> any validation anyway, and this is the kind of thing that is trivial
> to clean up with a thin layer of Perl or your scripting language of
> choice.
I would think that a spreadsheet application has some kind of control
over its export format, too. Perhaps you can just tell it to export
only the first N columns?
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