Is there any way to make copy work with fixed width files?
eg
create table t1 (code char(5), description char(30));
copy t1 from '/tmp/afile' delimiter as <nothing?>
where afile looks something like
00001test16789012345678901234567890
00002test26789012345678901234567890
00003test36789012345678901234567890
at the moment i have a function that does
create temp table tmp1 (line text);
copy tmp1 from '/tmp/afile';
<bunch of code to create a view of tmp1 with lots of substrings from
looking at information schema for t1 definition>
<it used to do the substrings in the plpgsql but it was orders of
magnitude quicker to use the view>
insert into t1 select * from tmpview;
klint.
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Klint Gore
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