Re: Importing undelimited files (Flat Files or Fixed-Length records) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: Importing undelimited files (Flat Files or Fixed-Length records)
Date
Msg-id 200806191735.04034.aklaver@comcast.net
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In response to Importing undelimited files (Flat Files or Fixed-Length records)  (Bill Thoen <bthoen@gisnet.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Thursday 19 June 2008 3:54 pm, Bill Thoen wrote:
> I've got to load some large fixed-legnth ASCII records into PG and I was
> wondering how this is done. The Copy command looks like it works only
> with delimited files, and I would hate to have to convert these files to
> INSERT-type SQL to run them through psql.. Is there a way one can
> specify a table structure with raw field widths and then just pass it a
> flat file?

Take a look at:
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgloader/

Latest version has support for fixed length records.
--
Adrian Klaver
aklaver@comcast.net

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