In article <485AE3AA.3030700@xxxxxxxxxx>, Bill Thoen <bthoen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: % I've got to load some large fixed-legnth ASCII records into PG and I was % wondering how this is done. The Copy command looks like it works only % with delimited files, and I would hate to have to convert these files to % INSERT-type SQL to run them through psql.. Is there a way one can % specify a table structure with raw field widths and then just pass it a % flat file? pg_loader is supposed to handle this. http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgloader -- Patrick TJ McPhee North York Canada ptjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx