On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Karl Czajkowski <kar...@isi.edu> wrote:

>
> With the temporary table, you can use SQL for most validation or data
> interrogation, but you need to know at least enough schema information
> in advance to form the COPY statement. Parsing the CSV header row to
> plan your work puts you right back to requiring a robust CSV parser
> unless you can constrain your input scenarios to only handle very
> trivial headers.
>

​You can write the entire contents of the CSV into a psql variable and
process the text blob from there using intermediate arrays.

David J.

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