Re: Change Windows path to Unix path...

Thanks,

That's exactly what I was looking for.

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Patrick Fiche
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-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of Shelby Cain
Sent: mardi 26 avril 2005 17:52
To: Patrick(dot)FICHE(at)aqsacom(dot)com; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Change Windows path to Unix path...

--- Patrick(dot)FICHE(at)AQSACOM(dot)COM wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to execute COPY command from some pgsql
> function.
> The filename is given as an argument of the
> function.
> But I get the filename like 'F:\tmp\file.txt' and I
> need to change this to
> 'F:/tmp/file.txt' before applying the COPY command.
>
> I dind't succeed to replace '\' by '/' in the
> filename.

Did you escape the backslash? Postgresql interprets
that as a C-style escape sequence.

Try something like:

create function win32tounix(varchar) returns varchar
as $$
select replace($1, '\\', '/');
$$ language sql;

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