Re: COPY returns Bad timestamp external rep..

On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 18:29, Patrick Hatcher wrote:
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> Stupid me. Thanks, your suggestion worked.

So, which one worked? The scripting language, or awk?

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> Subject: Re: [NOVICE] COPY returns Bad timestamp external rep..
> 05/23/2002
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> On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 17:40, Patrick Hatcher wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > I'm trying to import data from an external database that has the date
> > formatted as such: 2002-05-20 00.00.01. When I try to import the data, I
> > get the Bad Timestamp external representation error. I would usually
> > remove the time section, but for this particular table I need down to the
> > second. Could someone point me in the right direction?
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> Do you know perl or python? awk might even be able to, say,
> convert all of the periods in the 6th & 7th fields to colons.
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> > TIA
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> > CREATE TABLE "xmlpricetest" (
> > "upc" int8 NOT NULL,
> > "unit_price" float8,
> > "compare_price" float8,
> > "price_value" float8,
> > "price_indicator" int2,
> > "start_date" timestamp,
> > "end_date" timestamp
> > ) WITH OIDS;
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