Re: Can you use array data types w/ the COPY command? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From will trillich
Subject Re: Can you use array data types w/ the COPY command?
Date
Msg-id 20030131232656.GC1464@mail.serensoft.com
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In response to Can you use array data types w/ the COPY command?  ("Peter E. Chen" <pchen3@jhmi.edu>)
List pgsql-general
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:31:06PM -0500, Peter E. Chen wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Is there anyway to use the COPY command to bulkload a flat-file containing a
> column of csv's into a table w/ an integer[] data type?

here's how i'd find out--

    create temp table test(
        i int[],
        v varchar
    );

    insert into test values('{0}','zero');
    insert into test values('{1,20,300,4000}','trend');
    insert into test values('{2020}','vision');
    insert into test values('{1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128}','binary');

    copy test to stdout;

and see what format it uses. that's probably what it'll want on
the read-it-back-in side.

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