Re: using tab delimiter for csv format import

On Sun, 2013-01-13 at 11:08 -0800, Jeff Janes wrote:
> I have a tab-delimited text file I want to import into a table.
> However, I do not want \t translated to tab characters, etc., which is
> what the "text" format does. My file does not contain any special
> characters in need of escaping, and \ always just represents itself.
>
> So instead I want to use the "csv" format and specify the tab as the
> delimiter (on the "misc. options" tab). But, tab does not appear in
> the drop down list, and since typing tab changes the focus, a literal
> tab cannot by typed into this field. I could get around this by
> typing a tab into WordPad, then copying and pasting it into the
> delimiter field. But it would much nicer if the tab character was
> present in the delimiter drop down list (visibly represented by, say,
> "<tab>").
>

I wonder how this could work through a COPY command. Did you try?
because the import tool is a simple wrapper around the COPY command.

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