Why go through all of this when COPY can handle this for you? All I need to know is the syntax to tell copy that the strings are quoted by a single quote.
Thanks anyway. On 8/28/07, Medi Montaseri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This might not be the quickest way, but it is a skill you'll be happy to > have gained. > > Perl has a class (or module) called CSV.pm, you feed it a file, and it > does the rest (parsing it) and gives an array for each row. You can then > alter them (however you wish) and write them to a file suitable for pg copy, > or just use DBI to insert it into the PG. Which is basically an ETL > (Extract, Transform, Load). I know insert is slower, but the point was to > show a general way that will always for. > > Cheers > Medi Montaseri > > On 8/28/07, Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I need some help importing a csv file. I have been given a csv file > > full of data that is delimited by a comma, and the strings are delimited by > > a single quote. How do you write the copy statement to use a single quote > > delimiter? I have tried several things, but so far, no joy. > > > > Thanks for any help, > > > > Chris > > > >
