Re: Can COPY skip columns? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Can COPY skip columns?
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Msg-id 419CE34B.2000302@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: Can COPY skip columns?  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Adam Witney wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible for the COPY command to read data from a file, but skip
>> specific columns?

Crap, read your message backwards. Sorry. No you can't do this.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



>
>
> \h copy
>
> COPY tablename [ ( column [, ...] ) ]
>     TO { 'filename' | STDOUT }
>     [ [ WITH ]
>           [ BINARY ]
>           [ OIDS ]
>           [ DELIMITER [ AS ] 'delimiter' ]
>           [ NULL [ AS ] 'null string' ]
>           [ CSV [ QUOTE [ AS ] 'quote' ]
>                 [ ESCAPE [ AS ] 'escape' ]
>                 [ FORCE QUOTE column [, ...] ]
>
> Yes.. you just have to specify the columns...
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>
>
>
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