Re: Importing CSV File

On 10/27/2015 10:04 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> 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
>
>
Whence the csv file? If it starts out in spreadsheet, can you not export
only the columns you want in the database?

Google "postgres import tool" finds several options