"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> "Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> Feedback from someone else looking to the problem last year. IIRC there
>> was a feeling that if we didn't have to search for delimiters the COPY
>> FROM input parsing could be easier.
>
> Of what use is the above comment? You have to parse the input into
> fields somehow.
Well those two requirements aren't inconsistent if you're using fixed-width
input text files. Not that I'm enamoured of such file formats, just saying.
The only file formats I ever wanted when I was doing this kind of stuff is tab
separated, all the others (comma separated and (egads) *pipe* separated?!) are
just disasters.
--
Gregory Stark
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
