swaroop wrote > one more - i also need to insert useragent strings which have all sorts of > characters in them eg > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, > like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.29 Safari/525.13 > > Here there is a comma which causes the copy to fail. Other words do not > have comma in them. > > Can you please point me to the correct way to escape this ? > > To summarize - how do i replace the input strings in java (data is > streamed in and i do a copy to postgres) > so that CSV copy does not fail. > a. words with comma > b. words with double quotes in them > c. words with \ (backslash) In CSV (comma), strings are to be surrounded with double-quotes. These are optional unless the string can contain a comma or double-quote itself. Inside a double-quoted strong a comma is just a comma. A double-quote has to be escapedd but doubling it. "String ""quote"" , string". Backslash doesn't do anything special. David J. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/copymanager-question-tp5817197p5817357.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
