cat <file> | sed '<delimiter>$//' > <file>.new
this should remove the last delimiter
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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:33:26 +0100
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org.comp
From: H.J.Sanders[hjs]@rmax.nl.comp
Sender: pgsql-admin-owner+m15591@postgresql.org.comp
Subject: [ADMIN] copy
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.
Many thanks
Henk Sanders
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