On 07/12/2010 11:07, Allan Kamau wrote:
> I would like to use copy to populate a single row in table with data
> from a tsv file for further transformations.
> I seem not find a way to stop copy from seeing that the tsv file does
> indeed contain fields.
> This my current query
>
> COPY raw_data
> (
> raw_record
> )
> FROM
> '/tmp/some.tsv'
> ;
You can specify the character which COPY sees as the field delimiter to
be something other than a tab - maybe a comma, if there are no commas in
your input:
copy raw_data(raw_record)
from '/tmp/some.tsv'
with delimiter ',';
Would that do the job?
Ray.
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