Re: Nasty, propagating POLA violation in COPY CSV HEADER

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Nasty, propagating POLA violation in COPY CSV HEADER
Date: 2012-06-20 18:20:21
Message-ID: 1340216405-sup-3419@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Andrew Dunstan's message of mié jun 20 12:56:52 -0400 2012:
>
> On 06/20/2012 12:50 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Another related case: you have a file with headers and columns (n, t,
> > x, y, z) but your table only has n and t. How would you tell COPY to
> > discard the junk columns? Currently it just complains that they are
> > there.
>
> That's one of the main use cases for file_text_array_fdw.

Ah, great, thanks.

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