Re: Ragged CSV import

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 19:18 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>   
>> I agree that ignoring extra columns is a bad idea, but I don't even
>> like the idea of ignoring missing columns.  It doesn't seem like a
>> good idea to take a spreadsheet and feed it into COPY without doing
>> any validation anyway, and this is the kind of thing that is trivial
>> to clean up with a thin layer of Perl or your scripting language of
>> choice.
>>     
>
> I would think that a spreadsheet application has some kind of control
> over its export format, too.  Perhaps you can just tell it to export
> only the first N columns?
>
>   


Not to my knowledge. In any case, this requires more user work and much 
more user education, and in the situation I am dealing with neither is 
likely.

cheers

andrew