From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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To: | Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in> |
Cc: | pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Import textfile as table |
Date: | 2002-10-03 16:48:22 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0210031047530.5705-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On 2 Oct 2002 at 18:01, Michelle Konzack wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have gotten a 16 MByte textfile with around 27.000 lines of data
> > which contains a database with 22 fields which are <TAB> seperated.
> >
> > How can I import it into a (new) table and or new
> > database of pgsql.
>
> You can use \copy in psql. I don't know how would you specify tab as delimeter.
> May be you should convert it to some other delimeter like ':' or ',' if tab
> does not work.
>
> Get a small chunk of that file. First 100 records or so and experiment.
> Otherwise it might get quite irritating..;-)
Actually, tab is the default seperator for pg_dump and copy, so it should
work as is.
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