Re: Importing CSV File

On 10/27/2015 08:44 AM, Jeff Janes wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:45 PM, David Blomstrom
> <david.blomstrom@gmail.com <mailto:david.blomstrom@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I tried to import a CSV file into a PostgreSQL table using pgAdmin
>     III. I got an error message: "extra data after last column."
>
>
>     All my spreadsheets have an "end of data" column that has /r/n in
>     each cell. When I import a CSV file into a MySQL table, everything
>     beyond /r/n is ignored. Is there some way to tell PostgreSQL to stop
>     at /r/n?
>
>
> How does it know when to stop ignoring and start the next record?

I wondered about that also. I did find this:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/load-data.html

LINES TERMINATED BY

>
> You could write a little awk or perl script to give the PROGRAM option
> of copy, but you can't do that within pgAdmin.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff


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