Robert Haas wrote:
However, I'm skeptical about whether the specific thing you want to do after parsing (namely, drop excess columns, null-fill missing ones) is sufficiently common to warrant a feature to do only that. YMMV, of course.
So might my experience. I can tell you that I have been asked about this dozens of times since implementing CSV import, in various forums. From day one people have wanted a way of handling CSVs which were not strictly regular. Pretty much every time the request has been something fairly close to this.
As for the feature not being large enough, we have a regrettable (IMNSHO) tendency in this project to take simple proposals and embelish them with many bells and whistles. Personally, I'm much more of a fan of incremental development.
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