Patrick TJ McPhee wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Thoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
% I've got to load some large fixed-legnth ASCII records into PG and I was
% wondering how this is done. The Copy command looks like it works only
% with delimited files, and I would hate to have to convert these files to
% INSERT-type SQL to run them through psql.. Is there a way one can
% specify a table structure with raw field widths and then just pass it a
% flat file?
pg_loader is supposed to handle this.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgloader
Thanks, but as it turned out I also had to skip blank lines, so I wrote
a short sed script and piped the data through that into COPY. That
worked just fine.
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