Bruce Momjian wrote:
>Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>Bruce Momjian said:
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>>>Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>>>copy mytable to 'mydata.csv' csv force zipcode;
>>>>
>>>>seems OK to me. I'm all in favor of low-tecH solutions where
>>>>appropriate. ;-)
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>>>>
>>>Could we have FORCE just force quotes on all values, rather than
>>>allowing a list of columns to be specified? Seems if you have a
>>>strange zipcode field, it would be easier to just do them all.
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>>Then dates and numbers would be wrong. No all or nothing switch will work.
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>OK, I will start coding. So FORCE col1, col2 will force quotes on those
>two columns, right?
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That's what I was thinking. You would just have it as an array of
booleans indexed by attnum-1 and use it as part of the expression that
sets force_quote.
cheers
andrew