Re: How to remove quotes from COPY TO result?

On 07/17/2010 09:45 PM, Michael Rowan wrote:
> PostgreSQL 8.4.1
>
> I have a table "abbreviation" created as follows:
>
> id serial NOT NULL, full_name character varying(16), short_name
> character varying(16),
>
> I import some data from a tab delimited text file like so:
>
> 1 "STREET" "ST" 2 "ROAD" "RD"
>
> using COPY abbreviation FROM <<myfile>>
>
> The data is imported but I want the character columns to be stripped
> of the enclosing double-quotes and they are not. What do I have to
> do?

See:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/sql-copy.html

COPY abbreviation FROM 'filename' WITH DELIMITER '\t' CSV;
select * from abbreviation;
id | full_name | short_name
----+-----------+------------
1 | STREET | ST
2 | ROAD | RD
(2 rows)

HTH,

Joe

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