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From:
Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>Date: 2008/11/27
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] CSV import / export
To: Quan Zongliang <
quanzongliang@gmail.com>
Cc: Robins Tharakan <
tharakan@gmail.com>,
pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.orgQuan Zongliang a écrit :
> [...]
> This item is already in my plan.
> I am thinking what function should be supported and got some idea.
>
You should work together.
> There are some commercial pruduct that coded in Java.
> Through the JDBC technology, they can support almost all database.
> We can reference their function to design our component.
>
> Import/Export should has themselves dialog. In future, they can be
> grouped into a sub-menu with Backup/Restore.
>
> The CSV(Comma-Separated Values) has itself standard "RFC 4180".
> Website:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt >
> I plan to support it and some expansion.
> --column delimiter can be comma(std), colon, semicolon or TAB;
> (Text parser should accept any char or string to be delimiter, ideally.
> However, this will make the function too complicated. Juest be an idea
> now.)
length delimiter is also an option.
> --text can be quoted in single or double(std) quotation;
> --multi-format date, time, numberic
> --user can adjust column order to correspond with CSV item.
This would be great.
> --and so on
>
> wxWidgets has some class that support charset convertion.
>
Take a look at the pgloader tool in pgfoundry. It also deals with this
kind of problems. You should be able to get a complete list of issues
and ways to get over them.
