Re: PG Admin - Import from URL?

James David Smith <james(dot)david(dot)smith(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I then import the data as below:
>
> COPY busroutes_raw from 'C:/Program Files
> (x86)/PostgreSQL/8.4/data/BusRoutes.csv' DELIMITERS ',' CSV;
>
> But I wonder whether it is possible to put a URL as the origin of the
> file rather than a path?

Sure, use tools like wget or other to fetch the file from internet and
raise it to stdout, pipe that to psql -c "\copy ... from 'stdin'"

(something like that, untestet)

Andreas
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