Re: COPY returns Bad timestamp external rep..

used PERL

Patrick Hatcher
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Ron Johnson
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05/23/2002 04:37 PM

On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 18:29, Patrick Hatcher wrote:
>
> Stupid me. Thanks, your suggestion worked.

So, which one worked? The scripting language, or awk?

> Patrick Hatcher
> Macys.Com
> Legacy Integration Developer
> 415-932-0610 office
> HatcherPT - AIM
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> Ron Johnson

> <ron.l.johnson To: Patrick Hatcher
<PHatcher(at)macys(dot)com>
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> Subject: Re: [NOVICE] COPY
returns Bad timestamp external rep..
> 05/23/2002

> 03:54 PM

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> On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 17:40, Patrick Hatcher wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > I'm trying to import data from an external database that has the date
> > formatted as such: 2002-05-20 00.00.01. When I try to import the data,
I
> > get the Bad Timestamp external representation error. I would usually
> > remove the time section, but for this particular table I need down to
the
> > second. Could someone point me in the right direction?
>
> Do you know perl or python? awk might even be able to, say,
> convert all of the periods in the 6th & 7th fields to colons.
>
> > TIA
> >
> >
> > CREATE TABLE "xmlpricetest" (
> > "upc" int8 NOT NULL,
> > "unit_price" float8,
> > "compare_price" float8,
> > "price_value" float8,
> > "price_indicator" int2,
> > "start_date" timestamp,
> > "end_date" timestamp
> > ) WITH OIDS;
>
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