Re: copy from ignores \,

Read the COPY manual page --- backslashes are special and have to be
doubled to be treated as literal.

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Bauhofer Mario wrote:
> Hi,
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> i tried to copy a german text file into a table "imp" using copy from.
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> SET client_encoding TO LATIN1; -- german umlaute
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> Copy imp from 'filepath/filename.txt' delimiter as ',' Null as '\n';
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> As you can see the "text" contains commas escaped by a backslash.
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> But copy from ignores the \, an treat them as a separator
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> Is this correct ?
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> Do I miss something.
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> Thx for the help!
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> Create table imp(
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> Id smallint,
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> numberx int4,
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> Text varchar(255)
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> )
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> ...
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> 458,9009009,sometext1\,sometext2\,sometext3
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> ..
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