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used PERL

Patrick Hatcher
Macys.Com
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On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 18:29, Patrick Hatcher wrote:
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> Stupid me.  Thanks, your suggestion worked.

So, which one worked?  The scripting language, or awk?

> Patrick Hatcher
> Macys.Com
> Legacy Integration Developer
> 415-932-0610 office
> HatcherPT - AIM
>
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>                     Ron Johnson

>                     <ron.l.johnson       To:     Patrick Hatcher
<PHatcher@macys.com>
>                     @cox.net>            cc:     PgSQL Novice ML
<pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
>                                          Subject:     Re: [NOVICE] COPY
returns Bad timestamp external rep..
>                     05/23/2002

>                     03:54 PM

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> On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 17:40, Patrick Hatcher wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > I'm trying to import data  from an external database that has the date
> > formatted as such: 2002-05-20 00.00.01.  When I try to import the data,
I
> > get the Bad Timestamp external representation error.  I would usually
> > remove the time section, but for this particular table I need down to
the
> > second.  Could someone point me in the right direction?
>
> Do you know perl or python?  awk might even be able to, say,
> convert all of the periods in the 6th & 7th fields to colons.
>
> > TIA
> >
> >
> > CREATE TABLE "xmlpricetest" (
> >   "upc" int8 NOT NULL,
> >   "unit_price" float8,
> >   "compare_price" float8,
> >   "price_value" float8,
> >   "price_indicator" int2,
> >   "start_date" timestamp,
> >   "end_date" timestamp
> > ) WITH OIDS;
>
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