Re: loading delimited files

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 01:27:29PM -0500, Campano, Troy wrote:
> Are there docs on how to load delimited files into the database?

closer than you might think. "\h copy"!

psql somedatabase

somedatabase> \h copy

Command: COPY
Description: copy data between files and tables
Syntax:
COPY [ BINARY ] table [ WITH OIDS ]
FROM { 'filename' | stdin }
[ [USING] DELIMITERS 'delimiter' ]
[ WITH NULL AS 'null string' ]
COPY [ BINARY ] table [ WITH OIDS ]
TO { 'filename' | stdout }
[ [USING] DELIMITERS 'delimiter' ]
[ WITH NULL AS 'null string' ]

\t (tab) is default field separator,
\n (newline) is default record separator,
\N is default for NULL

pick a small table in your current database and try

psql> copy tinytable to stdout;

to see the format. note that ALL fields in the table are
exported, and should be included on the import, as well (in
field-definition order, from your create statements).

psql> copy atable FROM '/this/file/here.tsv';

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