Hallo
I am struggling to find the best solution to ignore blank lines in csv-file when using file_fdw. A blank line makes the table unreadable. I would like to avoid manipulating the file directly and avoid the need to make a new corrected copy of the file. I am on Linux so I have found a solution when using COPY: COPY test_table from program 'sed ''/^ *$/d'' /opt/builds/inotify_test/test.csv' with (format 'csv', header 'true'); but since the "program" option not seems to be implemented in file_fdw I am still searching for a solution. I have also found in an email from 2011 http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4e699de6.8010...@gmail.com that when force_not_null was implemented in file_fdw the patch also included "some cosmetic changes such as removing useless blank lines." But I do not find that blank lines is removed in general since I cannot read csv-files with blank lines, and I do not understand how the option "force_not_null" can do the trick since that is on the column level and not lines/row. Any good ideas out there? Thanks Nicklas Avén
