Re: copy - fields enclosed by, ignore x lines

Ah, looks like "enclosed by" will be in PG 8 :). Is
"QUOTE [ AS ] 'quote'" for the "enclosed by"
character?

Ignore x lines would be nice, but not as big of a
deal.

http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/sql-copy.html

--- CSN <cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:

> Any chance of changing \copy and COPY to allow
> specifying what the fields are enclosed by (such as
> quotes) and to ignore the first x number of lines? I
> have data like below and don't know of an easy way
> to
> finesse it for importing (a simple regexp would
> remove
> quotes, but I just got tripped up on commas *within*
> values).
>
> "field1","field2","field3"
> "val1","val2","val3"
>
>
>
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