Re: [GENERAL] FW: How to upload data to postgres

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From: "Markova, Nina" <nmarkova(at)NRCan(dot)gc(dot)ca>
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> I also plan to try to export data in XML format (from Ingres) and import
> it to Postgres.
>
> I didn't find any utility for importing XML data into Postgres. Or just
> looking at the wrong document?
> I run Postgres 8.2.4
>
> Thanks,
> Nina
>

I don't know how to do that. Back to your original problem, below is your copy statement from Ingres:

copy site(
sta= varchar(0)tab,
>
offdate= varchar(0)tab,
lat= c0tab,
lon= c0tab,
elev= c0tab,
regist_code= varchar(0)tab,
vault_cond= varchar(0)tab,
geology= varchar(0)tab,
comment= varchar(0)tab,
initials= varchar(0)tab,
lddate= c0nl,
nl= d0nl)
into '/tmp/site.dba'

According to the information below you should be able to change the varchar datatypes to char(0)tab and eliminate the length specifier. Seems this can be done for all data types and will produce a file with string representations of the data. The downside is the strings are padded to width of the column.

http://docs.ingres.com/sqlref/ColumnFormats#o1232

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> Adrian Klaver
> aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net