| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Importing via external table |
|---|---|
| Author | Helen Borrie |
| Post date | 2004-05-26T09:48:15Z |
At 09:36 AM 26/05/2004 +0100, you wrote:
it, or if you are exporting to a file to be read by an application that
needs it.
I think the problem here has to do with the precision of the
doubles. External table rows have to have fixed length fields and I don't
see how you could predict the length of floating point numbers imported
from an external source directly. How would the field boundaries be
determined?
/heLen
>In article <200405251810510987.061ED001@...>, Dan WilsonWell...no, you don't. You can include it if the file you are reading has
>wrote:
> > Are there any gotchas I should be aware of regarding creation and
> storage of records into external tables?
> >
>You need to allow a character in the table defn for the newline (and CR
>depending upon platform)
it, or if you are exporting to a file to be read by an application that
needs it.
I think the problem here has to do with the precision of the
doubles. External table rows have to have fixed length fields and I don't
see how you could predict the length of floating point numbers imported
from an external source directly. How would the field boundaries be
determined?
/heLen