Re: How to import CSV file?

["Chris Hoover" <revoohc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Why go through all of this when COPY can handle this for you?  All I need to know is the syntax to tell copy that the strings are quoted by a single quote.

Thanks anyway.

On 8/28/07, Medi Montaseri <montaseri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This might not be the quickest way, but it is a skill you'll be happy to have gained.

Perl has a class (or module) called CSV.pm, you feed it a file, and it does the rest (parsing it) and gives an array for each row. You can then alter them (however you wish) and write them to a file suitable for pg copy, or just use DBI to insert it into the PG. Which is basically an ETL (Extract, Transform, Load). I know insert is slower, but the point was to show a general way that will always for.

Cheers
Medi Montaseri

On 8/28/07, Chris Hoover < revoohc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I need some help importing a csv file.  I have been given a csv file full of data that is delimited by a comma, and the strings are delimited by a single quote.  How do you write the copy statement to use a single quote delimiter?  I have tried several things, but so far, no joy.

Thanks for any help,

Chris