Sjoerd, I have a limited task at hand: I need to binary-load fixed-length strings, or byte arrays, or anything that is not a number. Is there workaround? Thank you, Mark On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:

On 2011-10-05 20:21, Mark Kerzner wrote:

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Hi,

I've tried quite a few things (creating the files/strings with 0 at the end, with 0 and \n at the end, fixed length, etc.) but I still get an error

sql>copy into sku from ('/home/mark/MonetDbData/myfile); SQLException:sql:failed to attach file /home/mark/MonetDbData/myfile

I know that I can load integer values, because that works, so the problem must be in how I am formatting strings for MonetDB binary load. Are there any examples or any dumps to look at?

Attaching strings is not supported. In other words, there is no way you can do this with strings.

The reason that it is not supported is that the layout of strings is much more complex.

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On 2011-10-07 05:59, Mark Kerzner wrote:

Sjoerd,

I have a limited task at hand: I need to binary-load fixed-length strings, or byte arrays, or anything that is not a number. Is there workaround?

I'm afraid I can't think of anything. You'll just have to use COPY INTO from a CSV file (fastest) or INSERT. The way strings are stored internally is quite complex so therefore there is no quick-and-dirty way to get them into the server (like there is with integers). If the strings are all 4 or 8 bytes long, you could of course treat them as integers, but then you can't do string-like operations on them, and converting them to strings within the server will be hard.

Thank you, Mark

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Sjoerd Mullender mailto:sjoerd@acm.org> wrote:

On 2011-10-05 20:21, Mark Kerzner wrote: > Hi, > > I've tried quite a few things (creating the files/strings with 0 at the > end, with 0 and \n at the end, fixed length, etc.) but I still get an error > > sql>copy into sku from ('/home/mark/MonetDbData/myfile); > SQLException:sql:failed to attach file /home/mark/MonetDbData/myfile > > I know that I can load integer values, because that works, so the > problem must be in how I am formatting strings for MonetDB binary load. > Are there any examples or any dumps to look at?

Attaching strings is not supported. In other words, there is no way you can do this with strings.

The reason that it is not supported is that the layout of strings is much more complex.

-- Sjoerd Mullender

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