Example 2—Multiple gpfdist instances

Creates a readable external table, ext_expenses, using the gpfdist protocol from all files with the txt extension. The column delimiter is a pipe ( | ) and NULL (' ') is a space.

=# CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE ext_expenses ( name text,
    date date,        amount float4, category text, desc1 text )
    LOCATION ('gpfdist://etlhost-1:8081/*.txt',
                    'gpfdist://etlhost-2:8081/*.txt')
    FORMAT 'TEXT' ( DELIMITER '|' NULL ' ') ;