Re: Copy From problem

Eduardo Vázquez Rodríguez wrote:
> Hi I try to "copy from" a plain text file that looks someting like this:
>
> John Red (\t) Garden Grove (\t) jwayne@garden.com
> Jessie Rodriguez (\t) West Beach
> Jane Harrison (\t) Malibu (\t) jharrison@malibu.com
>
> Deliberately I missed the email info in the second line, I try to copy into
> a table that has the following structure:
>
> CREATE TABLE public."Example"
> (
>   "Name" varchar(30),
>   "Adress" varchar(60),
>   "Email" varchar(30),
> ) WITHOUT OIDS;

> My question is how can I insert a null value into the field email,and that
> "copy from" continue copying the next lines?

In recent versions you can specify the columns to import.

COPY "Example" ("Name", "Adress") FROM ...

or somethign like that.

BTW: I suggest not using uppercase table/field-names.
It's too much hazzle always having to quote table and field names ;)

HTH
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