Peter Eisentraut wrote:
On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 19:18 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
I agree that ignoring extra columns is a bad idea, but I don't even
like the idea of ignoring missing columns. It doesn't seem like a
good idea to take a spreadsheet and feed it into COPY without doing
any validation anyway, and this is the kind of thing that is trivial
to clean up with a thin layer of Perl or your scripting language of
choice.
I would think that a spreadsheet application has some kind of control
over its export format, too. Perhaps you can just tell it to export
only the first N columns?
Not to my knowledge. In any case, this requires more user work and much
more user education, and in the situation I am dealing with neither is
likely.
cheers
andrew
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