| From: | Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | 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 15:44:08 |
| Message-ID: | CAMkU=1wGvwQ=hC+gHCrJVGkBoMUv8HwAUK8mdAatsazmcFzOJQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:45 PM, David Blomstrom <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?
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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