Re: multiline CSV fields

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 03:38:16PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>
> > I would vote in favor of removing the current code that attempts
> > to support unquoted newlines, and waiting to see if there are
> > complaints.
>
> Uhm. *raises hand*
>
> I agree with your argument but one way or another I have to load
> these CSVs I'm given. And like it or not virtually all the CSVs
> people get are going to be coming from Excel. So far with 7.4 I've
> just opened them up in Emacs and removed the newlines, but it's a
> royal pain in the arse.

Meanwhile, check out dbi-link. It lets you query against DBI data
sources including DBD::Excel :)

http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dbi-link/

Bug reports welcome.

Cheers,
D
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