Some CSV file-import questions

Hello,

If the csv file generated by the application that I am
importing from contains quotes around each field, must I
write a program to strip these "field-level" quotes before
sending the file to COPY?

As we know, COPY is a single transaction. Therefore, it
would be "unpleasant" if, say, the process that is doing the
importing dies 90% of the way through a 10,000,000 row table.
Is there a checkpoint mechanism, that, would do a COMMIT, for
example, every 10,000 rows. Then, if the process that is doing
the importing does 90% of the way through that 10,000,000 row
table, when you restart the COPY, it skips over the inserted
rows.
Here is an example from the RDBMS that I currently use:
$ bulkload -load -log -commit=10000 -tran=exclusive -db=test \
-table=foo ~/foo.csv
Then, if something happens after inserting 9,000,000 rows,
it can be restarted by:
$ bulkload -load -log -commit=10000 -skip=9000000 -db=test \
-tran=exclusive -table=foo ~/foo.csv

From what I've seen in the documentation, and the mailing
list archives, the solution to both of these questions is
to roll my bulk loader.

Ron
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