Re: COPY from

From: Mladen Gogala <mladen(dot)gogala(at)vmsinfo(dot)com>
To: Mike <1100100(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: COPY from
Date: 2010-02-11 01:00:26
Message-ID: 1265850026.9844.1.camel@medo
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You should probably use the CSV format like this:

scott=# copy emp from '/tmp/emp.csv' with csv;
COPY 14
scott=# select * from emp;
empno | ename | job | mgr | hiredate | sal | comm |
deptno
-------+--------+-----------+------+---------------------+------+------+--------
7369 | SMITH | CLERK | 7902 | 1980-12-17 00:00:00 | 800 | |
20
7499 | ALLEN | SALESMAN | 7698 | 1981-02-20 00:00:00 | 1600 | 300 |
30
7521 | WARD | SALESMAN | 7698 | 1981-02-22 00:00:00 | 1250 | 500 |
30
7566 | JONES | MANAGER | 7839 | 1981-04-02 00:00:00 | 2975 | |
20
7654 | MARTIN | SALESMAN | 7698 | 1981-09-28 00:00:00 | 1250 | 1400 |
30
7698 | BLAKE | MANAGER | 7839 | 1981-05-01 00:00:00 | 2850 | |
30
7782 | CLARK | MANAGER | 7839 | 1981-06-09 00:00:00 | 2450 | |
10
7788 | SCOTT | ANALYST | 7566 | 1987-04-19 00:00:00 | 3000 | |
20
7839 | KING | PRESIDENT | | 1981-11-17 00:00:00 | 5000 | |
10
7844 | TURNER | SALESMAN | 7698 | 1981-09-08 00:00:00 | 1500 | 0 |
30
7876 | ADAMS | CLERK | 7788 | 1987-05-23 00:00:00 | 1100 | |
20
7900 | JAMES | CLERK | 7698 | 1981-12-03 00:00:00 | 950 | |
30
7902 | FORD | ANALYST | 7566 | 1981-12-03 00:00:00 | 3000 | |
20
7934 | MILLER | CLERK | 7782 | 1982-01-23 00:00:00 | 1300 | |
10
(14 rows)

scott

On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 19:20 -0500, Mike wrote:

> Thom,
>
> Thanks too for your quick response.
>
> Here's the requested data.
> I have modified it to protect personally identifying information.
>
> Line 1 from .csv file:
> "XYZ CO.","5835","WILDSTUFF
> INFO",28706,"11/27/2009","$DOLLARFIGURE","$DOLLARFIGURE",,0.00,0.00
>
> COPY command:
>
> copy invoice from '/home/m1/AR_Mod_1.csv';
>

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