Re: COPY table_name (single_column) FROM 'unknown.txt' DELIMITER E'\n'

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Joel Jacobson <joel(at)compiler(dot)org>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Isaac Morland <isaac(dot)morland(at)gmail(dot)com>, Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: COPY table_name (single_column) FROM 'unknown.txt' DELIMITER E'\n'
Date: 2021-05-05 19:51:47
Message-ID: 4046534.1620244307@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> On 5/5/21 2:45 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah, that's because of the conversion to "chr". But a regexp
>> is overkill for that anyway. Don't we have something that will
>> split on simple substring matches?

> Not that I know of. There is split_part but I don't think that's fit for
> purpose here. Do we need one, or have I missed something?

[ checks manual ... ]

string_to_array or string_to_table would do, I think.

regards, tom lane

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