Re: Copy Failure

--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> <operationsengineer1@yahoo.com> writes:
> > i'm trying to copy data from a csv file into a
> PGSQL
> > 7.4 database.  i tried tab delimited and i tried
> comma
> > delimted.
>
> PG 7.4's COPY does not have any support for CSV
> format (that was added
> in 8.0).  Tab-delimited should work OK though.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>

Tom, thanks for the follow up.  i'm hoping to transfer
my db in house running PHP 5 anf PGSQL 8 within a
couple weeks.

i did try tab delimited from openoffice.org.  when i
opened the file, though, there was a character
inserted in lieu of the tab space.  i think it was a
small vertical rectangle.

should i have opened the file and seen data separated
by actual tabs?  i'm wondering if OOO.org is inserting
a character for the tabs and 7.4 is choking on the
unexpected character.

tia...

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