Re: [PLUG] chopping files

[sean finney <seanius@seanius.net>]

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 21:09 -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> In the real (business) world, rather than the GNU (mysql/postgresql)
> world, "most" database loads come from fixed-width text files...
> though we can get into various split(1) implementations' support of
> ASCII v. EBCDIC, if you like. ;^>

just to nitpick, postgres is not GNU, and is in fact written with a
BSD-style license.  and both of these database servers support
loading flat files too.  (not that it makes them any more or less
applicable to the "business world"), but figured it was worth pointing
this out to a BSD user :)


	sean

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