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From tony@exquisiteimages.com
Subject Need help doing a CSV import
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Msg-id 6bb524da685d3e1679573a3c326fc22f.squirrel@www.exquisiteimages.com
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Responses Re: Need help doing a CSV import  (Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>)
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I am in the process of moving a FoxPro based system to PostgreSQL.

We have several tables that have memo fields which contain carriage
returns and line feeds that I need to preserve. I thought if I converted
these into the appropriate \r and \n codes that they would be imported as
carriage returns and line feeds, but instead they are stored in the
database as \r and \n.

The command I am using is:

copy main.company
  from E'f:\company.csv"
  DELIMITER "|"
  CSV HEADER QUOTE '"' ESCAPE E'\\';

The command imports all of the data, but I want the escaped codes to be
expanded to their actual values.

Can anyone assist me with this?


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