Re: Multiple table insert using a CSV list as the datasource

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Chris Palmer <chris(at)nodewarrior(dot)org>
Cc: Pgsql-Novice <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Multiple table insert using a CSV list as the datasource
Date: 2002-07-14 21:34:38
Message-ID: 20020714213438.GA16175@wolff.to
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On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 14:21:10 -0700,
Chris Palmer <chris(at)nodewarrior(dot)org> wrote:
> On Sunday, July 14, 2002, at 02:10 , Norman Khine wrote:
>
> >Is there such an SQL statement where you say:
> >
> >Take table csv and put column 1, 2, 3 into table products where column 1
> >should map to products.column1 etc etc ...
> >or take table csv and put column1 and column 4 into table price
>
> There might be a way to do all that in SQL, but I would do it with a
> short Perl script using the DBI module. It's fairly straightforward, and
> the DBI module's documentation is enough to get you going.

If you are talking about after the data has been put into a temporary
table, I don't think this would be a good idea. Doing the copy with
one insert statement is going to be faster.

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