Chris spotts <rfusca@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm trying to copy from a tab delimited file. The dates inside the file > are Unix timestamp style dates. > I thought the following script would do the trick, but it just gives me > an error saying > ERROR: invalid input syntax for type timestamp: "1238736600" > CONTEXT: COPY testtable line 1, column acquire_time: "1238736600" A trigger isn't going to help in the least for that; the data has to be a valid timestamp before the trigger will ever see it. The usual trick for this type of conversion is to load the data into a temporary table that has simple column types (eg integer or text) and then do your transformations during an INSERT/SELECT into the real target table. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
