> Why do we need to escape those characters? If I follow correctly, this
> will be in an expression that the user enters themselves?
I am sorry, Dave.
That description is not clear. You know, my English is bad.
There, the column mean CSV file's column, not table column.
The end user can set a option "First row is header".
CSV's first row will be consided column names.
If not, they will be "Column #1, Column #2, Column #3 ..."
Then, in the expression, the end user can input "<Column #1> || substring(<Column #3> from 2 for 1)".
It will be convert to corresponding row's data for every statement.
For example:
A1,B1,C1,D1,E1,F1 --> 'A1' || 'C1'
A2,B2,C2,D2,E2,F2 --> 'A2' || 'C2'
...
INSERT INTO t_name(col_list) VALUES( [some values], 'A1' || substring('C1' from 2 for 1), [some values]);
INSERT INTO t_name(col_list) VALUES( [some values], 'A2' || substring('C2' from 2 for 1), [some values]);
...
I think it is useful when the end user want to import the CSV data with different columns to table.
Regards.
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