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From Bauhofer Mario
Subject copy from ignores \,
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Msg-id E1E65IC-0003Ju-DX@smartmx-02.inode.at
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Responses Re: copy from ignores \,  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Hi,

 

i tried to copy a german text  file  into a table “imp” using copy from.

 

 

SET client_encoding TO LATIN1; -- german umlaute

Copy imp from ‘filepath/filename.txt’ delimiter as ‘,’ Null as ‘\n’;

 

As you can see the “text” contains commas escaped by a backslash.

 

But copy from ignores the \, an treat them as a  separator

 

Is this correct ?

 

Do I miss something.

 

Thx for the help!

 

Create table imp(

Id smallint,

numberx int4,

Text varchar(255)

)

 

…..

458,9009009,sometext1\,sometext2\,sometext3

……

 

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