Sunday, June 22, 2008

Re: [GENERAL] Importing undelimited files (Flat Files or Fixed-Length records)

In article <485AE3AA.3030700@gisnet.com>, Bill Thoen <bthoen@gisnet.com> wrote:
% I've got to load some large fixed-legnth ASCII records into PG and I was
% wondering how this is done. The Copy command looks like it works only
% with delimited files, and I would hate to have to convert these files to
% INSERT-type SQL to run them through psql.. Is there a way one can
% specify a table structure with raw field widths and then just pass it a
% flat file?

pg_loader is supposed to handle this.

http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgloader

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Patrick TJ McPhee
North York Canada
ptjm@interlog.com

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