Richard Huxton wrote: > CSN wrote: >> Probably wishful thinking, but who knows - maybe >> there's something in contrib! I have a bunch of csv >> data with the field names specified on the first line >> of the various files. Is there any such utility that >> will create a table schema using the field names AND >> look through the data and determine what data types >> each field should be? > > I'm not sure that's possible in a general sense. Is 123 text or a > number? How do I prove it one way or another? > > However, if you were happy to end up with "good enough" types (i.e. > might end up using text instead of a more specific type), and > know that > data was representative then it shouldn't be too tricky to write some > pattern-matching Perl to do the job. ruby's auto-typing might do the same, w/o having to write pattern-matching. reid ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
