From: | Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> |
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To: | Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, David Blomstrom <david(dot)blomstrom(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Importing CSV File |
Date: | 2015-10-27 16:04:08 |
Message-ID: | 562FA078.7010209@aklaver.com |
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On 10/27/2015 08:44 AM, Jeff Janes wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:45 PM, David Blomstrom
> <david(dot)blomstrom(at)gmail(dot)com <mailto:david(dot)blomstrom(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> I tried to import a CSV file into a PostgreSQL table using pgAdmin
> III. I got an error message: "extra data after last column."
>
>
> All my spreadsheets have an "end of data" column that has /r/n in
> each cell. When I import a CSV file into a MySQL table, everything
> beyond /r/n is ignored. Is there some way to tell PostgreSQL to stop
> at /r/n?
>
>
> How does it know when to stop ignoring and start the next record?
I wondered about that also. I did find this:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/load-data.html
LINES TERMINATED BY
>
> You could write a little awk or perl script to give the PROGRAM option
> of copy, but you can't do that within pgAdmin.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
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Adrian Klaver
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