Re: copy

fat fingered that one:

cat < file> | sed 's/<delimiter>$//'> <file>.new
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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:03:00 -0500
To: H(dot)J(dot)Sanders[hjs](at)rmax(dot)nl(dot)comp
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org(dot)comp
From: CHRIS(dot)HOOVER(at)companiongroup(dot)com(dot)comp
Sender: pgsql-admin-owner+m15600(at)postgresql(dot)org(dot)comp
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] copy

cat <file> | sed '<delimiter>$//' > <file>.new

this should remove the last delimiter
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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:33:26 +0100
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org(dot)comp
From: H(dot)J(dot)Sanders[hjs](at)rmax(dot)nl(dot)comp
Sender: pgsql-admin-owner+m15591(at)postgresql(dot)org(dot)comp
Subject: [ADMIN] copy

Hello.

We are moving a database from informix to Postgresql.

To do so we do an unload from Informix and copy to postgresql.

Informix unloads with a delimiter also after the last field in a record.

This is no problem when doing a copy to Postgresql 7.2
You get a warning (to many fields) but the copy process continues.

In 7.4 however the copy stops .

Does anyone know how to proceed the copy or a fast way to remove the last
character
from the unload files.

They are anyhow to big to handle with vi.

Many thanks

Henk Sanders

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