Re: How to import a CSV file (originally from Excel) into a Postgresql 8.0.7 database

Hello,

Thank you for all your answers.
I did indeed generate a .csv from OpenOffice (Excel could do the job as well)
and I imported it into Postgresql using 'copy'.
I had to put the .csv files into /tmp to avoid permissions issues but it went
fine and fast.
To import 45000 lines took about a second. This is impressive...

Thanks for your help.

> > For generation in Excel, you can just use File->Save, and select CSV as
> > the format. You can use either CSV or tab delimited, really.
>
> I am not sure if it matters with postgresql, but other programs require
> (MS-DOS) CSV format rather than the initial CSV choice.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard

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