COPY FROM - force a value - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Demel, Jeff
Subject COPY FROM - force a value
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Msg-id 136ED738BD4F1545B97E4AC06FF6370734C296@DMSP-MSG-EVS01.mail.pvt
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Responses Re: COPY FROM - force a value  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Is there a way to force a value when you're doing a COPY FROM, importing
a file into a table?

Here's my query as it is now:

COPY filetable (value1, value2, value3, value4, forcevalue1,
forcevalue2)
FROM 'C:\\InsertFiles\\thisfile.txt'  WITH DELIMITER AS '    '
;

The file only contains data for values 1 through 4.  I'd like to insert
values for the last two fields.  This is what I had in mind, which
doesn't work:

COPY filetable (value1, value2, value3, value4, forcevalue1,
forcevalue2)
FROM 'C:\\InsertFiles\\thisfile.txt'  WITH DELIMITER AS '    ', forcevalue1 = 1, forcevalue2 = 'this value'
;

TIA

-Jeff
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