| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Ragged CSV import |
| Date: | 2009-09-10 11:08:55 |
| Message-ID: | 4AA8DE47.5070804@dunslane.net |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 19:18 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>
>> I agree that ignoring extra columns is a bad idea, but I don't even
>> like the idea of ignoring missing columns. It doesn't seem like a
>> good idea to take a spreadsheet and feed it into COPY without doing
>> any validation anyway, and this is the kind of thing that is trivial
>> to clean up with a thin layer of Perl or your scripting language of
>> choice.
>>
>
> I would think that a spreadsheet application has some kind of control
> over its export format, too. Perhaps you can just tell it to export
> only the first N columns?
>
>
Not to my knowledge. In any case, this requires more user work and much
more user education, and in the situation I am dealing with neither is
likely.
cheers
andrew
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