I have the format files so that's good.
Have you tried opening a file in a text editor to see what they look like?
Yes. It looks like a binary file with lots of non printable characters. I tried running it through iconv with common encodings (windows-1524, utf-16, utf-32 and few others) but I can't seem to get a clean UTF-8 or ASCII conversion for some reason.
The bulk import command in PostgreSQL is COPY, so you'll likely want to look at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-copy.html
I need to get them into a shape where copy command can process them first I think.
Has anybody done anything like this before?I'd imagine that it's fairly common.
I googled for quite a while and couldn't find anything. Unfortunately the -f "format" option makes it hard to search for "BCP file format" or something similar.
