am 11.07.2006, um 9:24:06 +0200 mailte Christian Rengstl folgendes: > Hi again everyone, > > i got it to work, but came across another question concerning COPY. If > i have a column in a text file that i do not want/need in the > database, is there a way not to read that column from the file without > having to edit the file beforehand? > > Thanks for your advice! Do you have a UNIX-like operating system? Then you can use tools like 'cut': kretschmer@tux:~$ echo "s1,s2,s3" | cut -d ',' -f 1,3 s1,s3 This result can you pipe into psql. HTH, Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer (Kontakt: siehe Header) Heynitz: 035242/47215, D1: 0160/7141639 GnuPG-ID 0x3FFF606C http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net === Schollglas Unternehmensgruppe ===