When you use the Greenplum tools for loading and unloading data, you must specify how your data is formatted. COPY
, CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE,
and gpload
have clauses that allow you to specify how your data is formatted. Data can be delimited text (TEXT
) or comma separated values (CSV
) format. External data must be formatted correctly to be read by Greenplum Database. This topic explains the format of data files expected by Greenplum Database.
Parent topic: Loading and Unloading Data