On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 19:18 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> I agree that ignoring extra columns is a bad idea, but I don't even
> like the idea of ignoring missing columns. It doesn't seem like a
> good idea to take a spreadsheet and feed it into COPY without doing
> any validation anyway, and this is the kind of thing that is trivial
> to clean up with a thin layer of Perl or your scripting language of
> choice.
I would think that a spreadsheet application has some kind of control
over its export format, too. Perhaps you can just tell it to export
only the first N columns?