Re: Import CSV with Dates & Times

Just to report that I've realised what the problem was. PostgreSQL was
expecting the data in an american format of MM/DD/YYYY rather than the
UK version which is DD/MM/YYYY .

On 4 May 2012 13:31, James David Smith <james(dot)david(dot)smith(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Simon,
>
> Thanks for this. I don' t have pgloader installed and a quick search
> seems to suggest it's a Linux tool? I'm working in Windows
> unfortunately. Maybe a bit more info would be good...
>
> Here is my table:
>
> create table ibus_17_11_2011(
> route INTEGER,
> scheduled_depart_time TIMESTAMP
> )
>
> Here is my copy command:
>
> COPY ibus_17_11_2011 from 'C:/Program Files
> (x86)/PostgreSQL/8.4/data/ibus_17_11_2011_v2.csv' DELIMITERS ',' CSV;
>
> My date looks like this:
>
> 2  ,  17/11/2011 17:08:35
> 3  ,  17/11/2011 17:08:56
>
> Thanks
>
> James
>
>
>
> On 4 May 2012 12:47, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> On 4 May 2012 12:38, James David Smith <james(dot)david(dot)smith(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> Any sugestions please?
>>
>> Use pgloader
>>
>> --
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