H.J. Sanders wrote:
> Hello.
>
> We are moving a database from informix to Postgresql.
>
> To do so we do an unload from Informix and copy to postgresql.
>
> Informix unloads with a delimiter also after the last field in a record.
>
> This is no problem when doing a copy to Postgresql 7.2
> You get a warning (to many fields) but the copy process continues.
>
> In 7.4 however the copy stops .
>
> Does anyone know how to proceed the copy or a fast way to remove the last
> character
> from the unload files.
>
> They are anyhow to big to handle with vi.
sed 's/.$//' file > newfile
Always test before using, it's off the top of my head..
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Until later, Geoffrey