Added to TODO:
* Allow COPY to specify column names
> Yes, I have same problem. This functionality is "almost" standard,
> and
> found on other RDBMS. How do new features get added to the todo list's.
> Where can I view the current todo list?
>
> Fredrick
>
> Matthew Kennedy wrote:
>
> > I have a ton of data in a text delimited file from an old legacy system.
> > When uploading it into postgres, I'd do something like this:
> >
> > COPY stuff FROM 'stuff.txt' USING DELIMITERS = '|';
> >
> > The problem is some of the rows in stuff.txt may not conform to the
> > stuff table attributes (duplicate keys, for example). The command above
> > terminates with no change to the table stuff when it encounters an error
> > in stuff.txt. Is there a way to have postgres ignore erroneous fields
> > but keep information about which fields weren't processed. I believe
> > Oracle has some support for this through an IGNORE clause.
>
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