Re: COPY returns Bad timestamp external rep..

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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