Re: copymanager question

On 09/02/2014 03:20 AM, swaroop wrote:
> one more - i also need to insert useragent strings which have all sorts of
> characters in them eg
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML,
> like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.29 Safari/525.13
>
> Here there is a comma which causes the copy to fail. Other words do not have
> comma in them.

My solution is either quote the entire string or use a different
delimiter. I usually use | as it not often found in data.

>
> Can you please point me to the correct way to escape this ?
>
> To summarize - how do i replace the input strings in java (data is streamed
> in and i do a copy to postgres)
> so that CSV copy does not fail.
> a. words with comma
> b. words with double quotes in them
> c. words with \ (backslash)
>
>
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