Re: Two small questions re/ COPY CSV data into table

El día Tuesday, June 04, 2019 a las 11:32:45AM +0100, Andrew Gierth escribió:

> Matthias> 2. The CSV export is done by some Sybase tool which escapes
> Matthias> the delimiter as '\|', i.e. putting a backslash before the
> Matthias> delimiter. I found no way that COPY understands this
> Matthias> excaping. Any ideas?
>
> That sounds like the file is not actually a CSV - why do you think it
> is?
>
> ...

Well, it's not strictly CSV, but it is what the Sybase tool produces. The
delimiter is set to '|' and a data example line looks like:

0|1| cat $1 \| lpr -Pprinter |3|4

I do load this now with COPY in mode TEXT and modify the data before
with:

sed 's/|/\v/g' < table-from-Sybase | sed 's/\\\v/|/g' > table-for-copy

Works fine.

matthias

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