Andrew Gould wrote: > > I have a file of data that is tab delimited, with text > fields enclosed by quotation marks. > > I know I can use the copy command to load the data; > and that tab delimited is the default. How do I tell > Postgres to remove the quotation marks? It is probably easiest to remove the quote with a script (like the following perl program). while(<>){ chop; @a = split(/\t/,$_); @a = map { s/^"(.*)"$/$1/; $_; } @a; printf "%s\n", join("\t",@a); } Regards, Mit freundlichem Gruß, Holger Klawitter -- Holger Klawitter +49 (0)251 484 0637 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.klawitter.de/