> After a few dozen combinations I was able to answer my own question.
> 1. Save the Excel spreadsheet as comma delimited.
> 2. run 'psql mydatabase'
> 3. run 'COPY mytable FROM '/myfile.csv' USING DELIMITERS ',';
> and it works!
I am new to PostgreSQL myself, but from the little I have seen Pgsql uses
tabs as it's native separator. In other words if you can save that ascii
file using tabs as a separator you won't need to add a DELIMITERS clause.