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Re: \copy...

Webb Sprague <wsprague100@yahoo.com> — 2000-06-20T16:56:36Z

Finally--a question I think I can answer!

You need to specify what delimiters you use in your
.dat file;  the default for COPY is tab, but you can
change that to | with

   copy tablename from '/home/ed/import.dat' 
       delimiters '|'

Hope this works...(oops--I mean 'helps')

--- Ed <ed@jetumele.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a file that look like this :
> 
> firstname|lastname|email@domain.com
> firstname2|lastname2|email2@domain.com
> 
> and a table foo like :
> 
> firstname  varchar(30),
> lastname   varchar(30),
> email    varchar(50)
> 
> and I would like to do a :
> 
> copy tablename from '/home/ed/import.dat';
> 
> But then, everything goes in the first field... what
> does i'm doing
> wrong?!?!
> 
> Frdric Boucher
> Ed@jetumele.com
> Programmation, Support technique
> Jetumele Communications inc.
> 
> 


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