Re: Plan for CSV handling of quotes, NULL

From: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Plan for CSV handling of quotes, NULL
Date: 2004-04-15 09:32:52
Message-ID: 4312.24.211.141.25.1082021572.squirrel@www.dunslane.net
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Bruce Momjian said:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>> copy mytable to 'mydata.csv' csv force zipcode;
>>
>> seems OK to me. I'm all in favor of low-tecH solutions where
>> appropriate. ;-)
>
> Could we have FORCE just force quotes on all values, rather than
> allowing a list of columns to be specified? Seems if you have a
> strange zipcode field, it would be easier to just do them all.
>

Then dates and numbers would be wrong. No all or nothing switch will work.

cheers

andrew

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