Re: How to remove quotes from COPY TO result?

Thanks Joe.  That works fine, but gave me a hint to use the escape string syntax for escapes e.g., E'\r\n'.

I will attempt to discover what that means ;-)

Thanks again

Mike
On 18/07/2010, at 4:14 PM, Joe Conway wrote:

> On 07/17/2010 09:45 PM, Michael Rowan wrote:
>> PostgreSQL 8.4.1
>>
>> I have a table "abbreviation" created as follows:
>>
>> id serial NOT NULL, full_name character varying(16), short_name
>> character varying(16),
>>
>> I import some data from a tab delimited text file like so:
>>
>> 1    "STREET"        "ST" 2    "ROAD"             "RD"
>>
>> using COPY abbreviation FROM <<myfile>>
>>
>> The data is imported but I want the character columns to be stripped
>> of the enclosing double-quotes and they are not.  What do I have to
>> do?
>
> See:
>  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/sql-copy.html
>
> COPY abbreviation FROM 'filename' WITH DELIMITER '\t' CSV;
> select * from abbreviation;
> id | full_name | short_name
> ----+-----------+------------
>  1 | STREET    | ST
>  2 | ROAD      | RD
> (2 rows)
>
> HTH,
>
> Joe
>
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