Re: Importing undelimited files (Flat Files or Fixed-Length records)

Bill Thoen asked:

>
> I've got to load some large fixed-legnth ASCII records into PG and I was
> wondering how this is done. The Copy command looks like it works only
> with delimited files, and I would hate to have to convert these files to
> INSERT-type SQL to run them through psql.. Is there a way one can
> specify a table structure with raw field widths and then just pass it a
> flat file?

One possibility might be to create a table with one column of type text, load the data into that table with copy, and then, after creating the real table structure, populate it with the data by using substr and casts to get it into shape.

HTH,

Greg Williamson
Senior DBA
DigitalGlobe

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