| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | George Pavlov <gpavlov(at)mynewplace(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Quoted NULLs with COPY FROM |
| Date: | 2006-01-24 02:56:36 |
| Message-ID: | 200601240256.k0O2uaP23749@candle.pha.pa.us |
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George Pavlov wrote:
> I need to load CSV files that have quotes in data fields that I want to
> map to NULLs in the destination table. So if I see ...,"",... that needs
> to be mapped to a NULL (in an INTEGER field in this particular case).
> Are there any COPY command options that can do that? It seems that PgSQL
> COPY expects the NULL to be always unquoted. There is an option (FORCE
> NOT NULL) for doing the opposite. How do I specify that the NULLs are
> quoted? I am on 8.0.5.
Did you try NULL AS ''?
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