On 02/13/2011 08:26 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> This would be called a 'header' in most typical CSV scenarios.
> Unfortunately, last I checked (maybe it's changed?), COPY w/ HEADER just
> throws the header away instead of doing anything useful with it. If it
> actually used the header to build the column list, then adding a header
> would be sufficient, provided all the necessary fields are in the table.
See the discussion back around the the 8.1 release (IIRC) when we added
the HEADER option.
> If I wanted something to throw away the first record of a file before
> loading it, I'd use tail.
>
The whole point of us having direct CSV import is to minimise the
requirement for preprocessing.
That said, I think there's probably a good case for an option to use the
header line as a column list. I know of at least one application I have
written that could benefit from it. But that's work for 9.2 or later.
cheers
andrew
