On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 11:34:57 -0700,
Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net> wrote:
> Any major gotcha's besides only <lf> at the end of lines uploading a csv
> file using copy? I plan on loading the columns into text columns and
> converting them as I load them to other tables.
If any of the data is quoted you will need to strip the quotes. tsv usually
is a bit safer because of that.
>
> The first two lines look like:
> ---------------------------------
>
ZIPCode,ZIPCodeType,City,CityType,County,CountyFIPS,State,StateCode,StateFIPS,MSA,AreaCode,TimeZone,GMTOffset,DST,Latitude,Longitude
> 00501,U,Holtsville,D,Suffolk,36103,New
> York,NY,36,5380,631,Eastern,-5,Y,40.8147,-73.0451
>
>
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