Re: Importing a tab delimited text file - How?

From: Robby Russell <robby(at)planetargon(dot)com>
To: Ken Tozier <kentozier(at)comcast(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Importing a tab delimited text file - How?
Date: 2004-10-24 23:57:33
Message-ID: 1098662253.4524.29.camel@vacant
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On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 19:25 -0400, Ken Tozier wrote:
> I've been looking though the PostgreSQL documentation but can't seem to
> find a command for importing files. I read the documentation related to
> large objects but this isn't what I'm looking for as I don't want to
> import the entire file into a single field, I want to import it as a
> table. I'm sure there's a way to do it but I can't seem to find the
> magic command.
>
> Could someone point me to (or provide) an example?
>
> Thanks,
>

\h COPY

The COPY command will help you with this.

-Robby

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