Re: Additional options for COPY from

2025-09-25 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 9/25/25 11:49, Bryan Sayer wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this is the best list to ask this (and I am very new to PostgreSQL) but I think more options are needed in the COPY from command, in order to better deal with exceptions. By exceptions I mean data not consistent with the format, empty r

Re: Additional options for COPY from

2025-09-25 Thread David G. Johnston
On Thursday, September 25, 2025, Bryan Sayer wrote: > Is there someone or a party that deals with the details of the COPY > command that I could discuss this with? > This mailing list is the primary medium that reaches a large number of people some of whom may wish to join in your discussion. J

Re: Additional options for COPY from

2025-09-25 Thread Brent Wood
As I understand it, COPY is intended as a simple & fast way to get clean data into Postgres. It is not intended to groom data during the process. There are a variety of ETL tools that can apply filters & rules to data streams to do what you are asking, so no need to invent another Postgres speci

Re: Additional options for COPY from

2025-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, Sep 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM Bryan Sayer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this is the best list to ask this (and I am very new to > PostgreSQL) but I think more options are needed in the COPY from command, > in order to better deal with exceptions. By exceptions I mean data not > consistent wi

Additional options for COPY from

2025-09-25 Thread Bryan Sayer
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the best list to ask this (and I am very new to PostgreSQL) but I think more options are needed in the COPY from command, in order to better deal with exceptions. By exceptions I mean data not consistent with the format, empty rows, extra delimiters at the end of r