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CSV Quick Facts

About Quick Facts Tables

Format Type Identifier

CSV

Reader/Writer

Both

Licensing Level

Base

Dependencies

None

Dataset Type

Directory or File

Feature Type

File base name

Typical File Extensions

.csv, .csv.gz

By convention, these files use the .csv extension, but the CSV reader and writer can use any extension. The CSV reader can also read from a gzipped file with that extension “.csv.gz” and the writer can write a gzipped file if the extension of destination file ends with “.gz”

Automated Translation Support

Yes

User-Defined Attributes

Yes

Coordinate System Support

No

Generic Color Support

No

Spatial Index

Never

Schema Required

Yes

Transaction Support

No

Geometry Type

csv_type

Encoding Support

Yes

Geometry Support

Geometry

Supported?

 

Geometry

Supported?

aggregate

no

 

point

yes

circles

no

 

polygon

no

circular arc

no

 

raster

no

donut polygon

no

 

solid

no

elliptical arc

no

 

surface

no

ellipses

no

 

text

no

line

no

 

z values

n/a

none

yes