Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc: Text Columns Not Quoted When Saving .csv [RESOLVED]

On 12/22/2012 09:45 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> >  I've been going around in circles on this issue for most of today 
> > without
> > finding the solution. The context:
>
>   The reason for the problem, and its solution, finally penetrated my
> consciousness so I resolved the issue.
>
>   Usually, the data I get in spreadsheet format has a value in each 
> cell so
> I can write the SQL INSERT INTO statement without specifying column 
> names for
> each value; each row is complete. With these data, however, there are
> missing values which are different in each row. Therefore, I need to 
> either
> specify the attributes with values for each row in the INSERT INTO 
> statement
> or indicate blanks with NULLs.
>
>   Because each spreadsheet can have 19-100 columns and up to 105,000 
> rows,
> hand-crafting an INSERT INTO statement for each file would require a huge
> amount of time. Ergo, I'm filling in blank cells with NA which is easily
> converted to NULL once the table exists in postgres.
>
>   Thanks for all the suggestions, and the best of the holiday season to
> everyone.
>
> Rich
Happy holidays also.

The table schema require each line to have 100 distinct, if empty, 
columns and the data fills a variable number of columns. Did not think 
of that as the problem but it would be for any relational database.

--
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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