Re: \copy...

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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