Re: \copy...

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(at)jetumele(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a file that look like this :
>
> firstname|lastname|email(at)domain(dot)com
> firstname2|lastname2|email2(at)domain(dot)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(at)jetumele(dot)com
> Programmation, Support technique
> Jetumele Communications inc.
>
>

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