Re: COPY returns Bad timestamp external rep..

Stupid me.  Thanks, your suggestion worked.

Patrick Hatcher
Macys.Com
Legacy Integration Developer
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                    Ron Johnson
                    <ron.l.johnson       To:     Patrick Hatcher <PHatcher@macys.com>
                    @cox.net>            cc:     PgSQL Novice ML <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
                                         Subject:     Re: [NOVICE] COPY returns Bad timestamp external rep..
                    05/23/2002
                    03:54 PM






On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 17:40, Patrick Hatcher wrote:
> Howdy,
> I'm trying to import data  from an external database that has the date
> formatted as such: 2002-05-20 00.00.01.  When I try to import the data, I
> get the Bad Timestamp external representation error.  I would usually
> remove the time section, but for this particular table I need down to the
> second.  Could someone point me in the right direction?

Do you know perl or python?  awk might even be able to, say,
convert all of the periods in the 6th & 7th fields to colons.

> TIA
>
>
> CREATE TABLE "xmlpricetest" (
>   "upc" int8 NOT NULL,
>   "unit_price" float8,
>   "compare_price" float8,
>   "price_value" float8,
>   "price_indicator" int2,
>   "start_date" timestamp,
>   "end_date" timestamp
> ) WITH OIDS;

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