Re: ERROR: relation . . . does not exist

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 08:23:25AM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> OK, let me try to outline the approach I would go for:
> ~
> I think "COPY FROM CSV" should have three options, namely:

I think you're confusing postgresql with a spreadsheet program. A
database is designed to take care of your data and ensure its
integrity. As such it requires a little more thought.

There are client programs which will do this for you, perhaps you wan
one of those?

What's so hard about:

create table foo (a text, b text);

After which your COPY will complete fine.

> 2.1) aggressive: data type, value and formatting analysis is done; if
> only 1 or 0 are found declare then a BOOLEAN, if repeated data is
> found (say state codes) and the stratification nodes cover the rest of
> the data, stratify the data out to other extra table (they have a name
> I can't recall now), index it ..., if data is kind of numeric with
> front slashes and/or hyphen could they possibly be dates? if they are
> definitelly dates convert them to bigint (and do the formatting in the
> presentation code (also this a win-win situation with i18n code)) ...

PostgreSQL has 60+ types and many look like eachother. How do you
propose to differentiate?

Have a nice day,
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