On Friday 17 December 2010 7:46:12 am Mark Watson wrote: > Hello all, > Firstly, I apologise if this is not the correct list for this subject. > Lately, I've been working on a data conversion, importing into Postgres > using Copy From. The text file I'm copying from is produced from an ancient > program and produces either a tab or semi-colon delimited file. One file > contains about 1.8M rows and has a 'comments' column. The exporting > program, which I am forced to use, does not surround this column with > quotes and this column contains cr/lf characters, which I must deal with > (and have dealt with) before I can import the file via Copy. Hence to my > suggestion: I was envisioning a parameter DELIMITER_COUNT which, if one was > 100% confident that all columns are accounted for in the input file, could > be used to alleviate the need to deal with cr/lf's in varchar and text > columns. i.e., if copy loaded a line with fewer delimiters than > delimiter_count, the next line from the text file would be read and the > assignment of columns would continue for the current row/column. > Just curious as to the thoughts out there. > Thanks to all for this excellent product, and a merry Christmas/holiday > period to all. > > Mark Watson A suggestion,give pgloader a look; http://pgloader.projects.postgresql.org/ If I am following you it might already have the solution to the multi-line problem. In particular read the History section of the docs. Thanks, -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
