| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Chris Hoover <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com>, Medi Montaseri <montaseri(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org Admin" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: How to import CSV file? |
| Date: | 2007-08-28 19:34:42 |
| Message-ID: | 1966.1188329682@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Jeff Frost <jeff(at)frostconsultingllc(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Chris Hoover wrote:
>> Why go through all of this when COPY can handle this for you? All I need to
>> know is the syntax to tell copy that the strings are quoted by a single
>> quote.
> Probably you want to try something like:
> COPY foo FROM '/tmp/foo' WITH CSV QUOTE AS '\'';
Actually I'd recommend WITH CSV QUOTE AS '''' ... the backslash syntax
is nonstandard and will bite you eventually. Doubled quote works in
every version of PG.
regards, tom lane
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