Ignore quotation marks when importing a CSV file into PostgreSQL?

Question

I\'m trying to import a tab-delimited file into my PostgreSQL database. One of the fields in my file is a \"title\" field, which occasionally contains actual quotation marks. Fo

Answer 1

I struggled with the same error and a few more. Finally gathering knowledge from few SO questions I came up with the following setup for making COPY TO/FROM successful even for quite sophisticated JSON columns:

COPY "your_schema_name.yor_table_name" (your, column_names, here) 
FROM STDIN WITH CSV DELIMITER E'\t' QUOTE '\b' ESCAPE '\';
--here rows data
\.

the most important parts:

• QUOTE '\b' - quote with backspace (thanks a lot @grautur!)
• DELIMITER E'\t' - delimiter with tabs
• ESCAPE '\' - and escape with a backslash