Firebird External Table Generator (ext-table-gen) 2.0 released

04 November 2023

I am happy to announce the release of version 2.0 of “Firebird External Table Generator” (ext-table-gen for short). (It was released back in September, but I forgot to put up a post on my own website.)

“Firebird External Table Generator” is a commandline tool to transform CSV files to Firebird external table files (a binary format for external table data).

Compared to version 1.0, a lot of new features have been added:

  • Support for additional data types:

    • Integral number types:

      • smallint

      • integer

      • bigint

      • int128

    • Exact numeric types (fixed point):

      • numeric

      • decimal

    • Datetime types:

      • date

      • time (without time zone)

      • timestamp (without time zone)

  • Customizing the CSV parser configuration (custom separators, quotes, escapes, etc.)

You can find the 2.0 release at ext-table-gen v2.0.

Documentation and release notes can be found on https://mrotteveel.github.io/ext-table-gen/.

The project itself is hosted on https://github.com/mrotteveel/ext-table-gen.