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\copy...

From
"Ed"
Date:
Hi,

I have a file that look like this :

firstname|lastname|email@domain.com
firstname2|lastname2|email2@domain.com

and a table foo like :

firstname  varchar(30),
lastname   varchar(30),
email    varchar(50)

and I would like to do a :

copy tablename from '/home/ed/import.dat';

But then, everything goes in the first field... what does i'm doing
wrong?!?!

Frédéric Boucher
Ed@jetumele.com
Programmation, Support technique
Jetumele Communications inc.

Re: \copy...

From
Webb Sprague
Date:
Finally--a question I think I can answer!

You need to specify what delimiters you use in your
.dat file;  the default for COPY is tab, but you can
change that to | with
  copy tablename from '/home/ed/import.dat'       delimiters '|'

Hope this works...(oops--I mean 'helps')

--- Ed <ed@jetumele.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a file that look like this :
> 
> firstname|lastname|email@domain.com
> firstname2|lastname2|email2@domain.com
> 
> and a table foo like :
> 
> firstname  varchar(30),
> lastname   varchar(30),
> email    varchar(50)
> 
> and I would like to do a :
> 
> copy tablename from '/home/ed/import.dat';
> 
> But then, everything goes in the first field... what
> does i'm doing
> wrong?!?!
> 
> Fr�d�ric Boucher
> Ed@jetumele.com
> Programmation, Support technique
> Jetumele Communications inc.
> 
> 


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Re: \copy...

From
Christopher Sawtell
Date:
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Ed wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a file that look like this :
> 
> firstname|lastname|email@domain.com
> firstname2|lastname2|email2@domain.com
> 
> and a table foo like :
> 
> firstname  varchar(30),
> lastname   varchar(30),
> email    varchar(50)
> 
> and I would like to do a :
> 
> copy tablename from '/home/ed/import.dat';
> 
> But then, everything goes in the first field... what does i'm doing
> wrong?!?!

You are nearly there, use:-

copy tablename from '/home/ed/import.dat' using delimiters '|';

see sql-copy.htm in online doco.

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