MemSQL support for MySQL style user variables in the load data command

Question

Does MemSQL support user variables in the load data command, similar to MySQL (see MySQL load NULL values from CSV data for examples)? The MemSQL documentation (https://docs.memsql.com/docs/load-data) doesn't give a clue, and my attempts at using user variables have failed.

Answer 1

No, variables in LOAD DATA are not currently supported in general (as of MemSQL 5.5). This is a feature we are tracking for a future release.

We only support the following syntax to skip the contents of a column in the file using a dummy variable (briefly mentioned in the docs https://docs.memsql.com/docs/load-data):

load data infile 'foo.tsv' into table foo (bar, @, @, baz);