On Thursday 19 June 2008 3:54 pm, Bill Thoen wrote:
> I've got to load some large fixed-legnth ASCII records into PG and I was
> wondering how this is done. The Copy command looks like it works only
> with delimited files, and I would hate to have to convert these files to
> INSERT-type SQL to run them through psql.. Is there a way one can
> specify a table structure with raw field widths and then just pass it a
> flat file?
Take a look at:
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgloader/
Latest version has support for fixed length records.
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Adrian Klaver
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