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title: Loading and Writing Non-HDFS Custom Data 
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Greenplum Database supports `TEXT` and `CSV` formats for importing and exporting data through external tables. You can load and save data in other formats by defining a custom format or custom protocol or by setting up a transformation with the `gpfdist` parallel file server.

-   **[Using a Custom Format](../../load/topics/g-using-a-custom-format.html)**  

-   **[Using a Custom Protocol](../../load/topics/g-using-a-custom-protocol.html)**  


**Parent topic:** [Loading and Unloading Data](../../load/topics/g-loading-and-unloading-data.html)

