Re: [GENERAL] Import German Decimal Numbers

Well if your doing an update, do it column by column and when you do a
date column replace the '.' with '/'

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[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jan Christian
Dittmer
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:16 AM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Import German Decimal Numbers

Thank you very much!
You have remind me that the our server runs under Linux and not under
Windows as our clients :-)
So indeed I can use a sed-pipe construct to switch '.' and ','.
But wait, there is just another problem then. Our date format is also
german :-( "DD.MM.YY" or
"DD.MM.YYYY". So if I just exchange '.' and ',' the date will be
unreadable for the import :-(
The (current) file is 1.4 GB so it will take ages to let awk chew on it
I guess.

Christian

Ken Allen wrote:
> I would replace the ',' with something else such as a '#' first then
> replace the decimal with the ',' then replace the '#' with a decimal
'.'
>
> If you do the ',' with a '.' first then all of them will be '.' and
you
> wont know which ones to change.
>

> Don't know, but you can replace the , to . within the ascii-file (sed,
> awk, ...).
>
>
> Andreas

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