Re: Quoted NULLs with COPY FROM

George Pavlov wrote:
> I need to load CSV files that have quotes in data fields that I want to
> map to NULLs in the destination table. So if I see ...,"",... that needs
> to be mapped to a NULL (in an INTEGER field in this particular case).
> Are there any COPY command options that can do that? It seems that PgSQL
> COPY expects the NULL to be always unquoted. There is an option (FORCE
> NOT NULL) for doing the opposite. How do I specify that the NULLs are
> quoted? I am on 8.0.5.

Did you try NULL AS ''?

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