| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Importing from CSV, auto creating table? |
| Date: | 2019-08-22 03:14:41 |
| Message-ID: | CAKFQuwbc6qCLWAdusCz69KqgyWAssXbGB4QFWShFT-c45ETNVA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wednesday, August 21, 2019, Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On 8/21/19 4:15 PM, stan wrote:
>
>> I have a situation where we need to import data, as an interim measure,
>> from spreadsheets.
>>
>> I have read up on \copy and COPY, but I do not see that either of these
>> can
>> use the header from a CSV file to define a new table. Am I missing
>> something?
>>
>
> Data types. Sure, you've got column names from the header line, but what
> types do you assign them?
Text. I’m gonna post-process anyway, casting to better types isn’t a
problem.
David J.
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