| From: | ghaverla(at)freenet(dot)edmonton(dot)ab(dot)ca |
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| To: | Leslie Johnson - Contractor <ljohnson(at)arl(dot)army(dot)mil> |
| Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: A very novice question about ascii files |
| Date: | 2000-09-08 19:58:49 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.A41.3.95.1000908135643.21014L-100000@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca |
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On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Leslie Johnson - Contractor wrote:
> Hi all,
> This is probably a very stupid question but I'm working on a really tight
> deadline and I'm very confused.
It's isn't quite verbose enough for me to give but a
start on an answer. Someone else may have more knowledge.
> I've got several incredibly hefty ascii
> files that were at one point Oracle databases. Now they're just plain
> ascii dump files and today I got asked to put them in PGSQL but I have no
> idea how (I've never even worked with databases before except for the
> offline variety.) Can anybody please point me towards some documentation
> that would be helpful or give me some advice?
I guess you've looked a little at these files. Do they
look like fixed format or delimited files? I.e., is the first
field always columns 1-N, the second, N+1 to M, ...
Good luck,
Gord
Matter Realisations http://www.materialisations.com/
Gordon Haverland, B.Sc. M.Eng. President
101 9504 182 St. NW Edmonton, AB, CA T5T 3A7
780/481-8019 ghaverla @ freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
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