Re: Two small questions re/ COPY CSV data into table

El día Tuesday, June 04, 2019 a las 04:41:47PM +0100, Andrew Gierth escribió:

>  Matthias> I do load this now with COPY in mode TEXT and modify the data
>  Matthias> before with:
> 
>  Matthias>  sed 's/|/\v/g' < table-from-Sybase  | sed 's/\\\v/|/g' > table-for-copy
> 
> What on earth is this supposed to achieve?

It first translates any char '|' to vtab and then any '\vtab' (i.e. a
backslash followed by a vtab) back to the char |

The new DELIMITER for PG is then vtab and the | is just a char in the
data (in the example above a pipe of two UNIX cmd). Do you do UNIX?

    matthias

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