Re: populate table with large csv file

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 11:38, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote:
> have the table "numbercheck"
> Attribute | Type | Modifier
> -----------+------------+----------
> svcnumber | integer | not null
> svcqual | varchar(9) |
> svcequip | char(1) |
> svctroub | varchar(6) |
> svcrate | varchar(4) |
> svcclass | char(1) |
> trailer | varchar(3) |
> Index: numbercheck_pkey
>
> also have a csv file
> 7057211380,Y,,,3,B
> 7057216800,Y,,,3,B
> 7057265038,Y,,,3,B
> 7057370261,Y,,,3,B
> 7057374613,Y,,,3,B
> 7057371832,Y,,,3,B
> 4166336554,Y,,,3,B
> 4166336863,Y,,,3,B
> 7057201148,Y,,,3,B
>
> aside from parsing the csv file through a PHP interface, what isthe easiest way
> to get that csv data importted into the postgres database. thoughts?

No matter what you do, it's going to barf: svcnumber is a 32-bit
integer, and 7,057,211,380 is significantly out of range.

Once you change svcnumber to bigint, the COPY command will easily
suck in the csv file.

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