Re: Can COPY skip columns?

Adam Witney wrote:
> Hi Joshua,
>
> Sorry, I meant skip a column in the file, not the database table, or is that
> what you meant?

No, I read your question backwards. I am sorry. As Tom Lane said, copy
the file into a temporary table and then you can deal with it from there.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Thanks
>
> adam
>
>
>
>
>>Adam Witney wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Is it possible for the COPY command to read data from a file, but skip
>>>specific columns?
>>
>>\h copy
>>
>>COPY tablename [ ( column [, ...] ) ]
>> TO { 'filename' | STDOUT }
>> [ [ WITH ]
>> [ BINARY ]
>> [ OIDS ]
>> [ DELIMITER [ AS ] 'delimiter' ]
>> [ NULL [ AS ] 'null string' ]
>> [ CSV [ QUOTE [ AS ] 'quote' ]
>> [ ESCAPE [ AS ] 'escape' ]
>> [ FORCE QUOTE column [, ...] ]
>>
>>Yes.. you just have to specify the columns...
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>
>>Joshua D. Drake
>>
>>
>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Adam
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>

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