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.

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

    Parent topic: Examples for Creating External Tables