Re: Really easy problem...

Howdy, James,

Have you tried adding column names?

COPY master_table_interpolated (date_time, person_id) ...

?

Just took a look at this http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-copy.html

Best,
Oliver

----- Original Message -----
From: James David Smith
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 12:12 PM
Subject: [NOVICE] Really easy problem...

Hi everyone,

I'm struggling with something which I'm sure should be REALLY easy. But I can't quite get it to work. I've got a CSV file with two columns which looks like the below:

2012-07-15 10:00:00, 1
2012-07-15 10:00:00, 2
2012-07-15 10:00:00, 3
2012-07-15 10:00:00, 4
2012-07-15 10:00:00, 5

I want to copy the data into this table:

CREATE TABLE master_table_interpolated(
date_time TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE,
person_id INTEGER,
person_location GEOMETRY);

So the data from the CSV file should go into the first two columns of my table, and leave the final one blank. I use this query to pull the CSV file in, however I can't figure out how to map the data to the correct columns in my table.

COPY master_table_interpolated from 'C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/9.0/data/basetime.csv' DELIMITERS ',' CSV;

Ideas please?

Thanks

James