am Thu, dem 02.10.2008, um 15:35:44 +0200 mailte Tim Semmelhaack folgendes: > Hello, > > I have to import a huge number of data sets of data sets with "Copy from". > > The numbers are formatted with decimal comma ',' (as usual in Germany) > instead of the decimal point '.' > > When I try to import this data Postgres crashes, so I think I have to PostgreSQL crashed? I disbelieve this, you got an error, right? > change a parameter with SET? Does anybody know which parameter I have > to change? There isn't such a parameter. Change your data, change the ',' to '.'. Or load the data into a temp. table as text and use build-in-functions to convert this text to numeric and fill your destination table. I would use sed or such tools. Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA http://wwwkeys.de.pgp.net