On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie> wrote:
> On 07/12/2010 11:07, Allan Kamau wrote:
>>
>> I would like to use copy to populate a single row in table with data
>> from a tsv file for further transformations.
>> I seem not find a way to stop copy from seeing that the tsv file does
>> indeed contain fields.
>> This my current query
>>
>> COPY raw_data
>> (
>> raw_record
>> )
>> FROM
>> '/tmp/some.tsv'
>> ;
>
> You can specify the character which COPY sees as the field delimiter to be
> something other than a tab - maybe a comma, if there are no commas in your
> input:
>
> copy raw_data(raw_record)
> from '/tmp/some.tsv'
> with delimiter ',';
>
> Would that do the job?
>
> Ray.
>
> --
> Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland
> rod@iol.ie
>
There are commas in the input, and there is no guarantee that any one
single character will not appear in the input. I could appoint a
character such as the comma as suggested then use sed to change all
commas in the incoming data to maybe '|' (pipe character) but this it
may change the semantics of the data if the incoming data does contain
pipe characters delimiting comma separated lists of values all in a
given logical field.
Allan.
