Re: ERROR: COPY quote must be a single ASCII character

Andrej Kastrin wrote:
>
> Colin Wetherbee wrote:
>> Andrej Kastrin wrote:
>>> ||5354235||,||some text...|| ||1234567||,||some text...||
>>> ||1234568||,||some text...||
>>>
>>> The sql statement I defined was:
>>>
>>> COPY testtable FROM 'test.txt' WITH DELIMITER AS ',' CSV QUOTE AS
>>> '||';
>>>
>>> but the error:
>>>
>>> ERROR: COPY quote must be a single ASCII character
>>
>> I guess I'm stating the obvious here, but can you just change your
>> '||' quotes to a single character within the file?
>>
>> Colin
>>
> The answer is simple no. I know I can to some preprocessing on input
> files using awk, sed etc. but don't want to change the structure of
> the file.

OK, how about replacing '||' with '|' on a *copy* of your file, then?
It's not making that big a change to the structure, in any case.

Otherwise, you won't be able to do what it is that you wish to do. The
delimiter must be a single character, full stop.

brian