Re: Stream data into Postgres via Perl

Hi,
I think the best way of doing the Insertion is to use the copy command of
postgres. You then have to insert Then nextval manually. this can be done by
replacing and '|' with ',' and save it as .CSV. Open the file in Excel and
insert the intial row as the way you want, i mean the starting index value,
save again as CSV.
If you are using Linux OS, save file (.CSV) as unix fileformat and use the
following command while you are in the postgres command prompt.
\copy table_name from 'filename' using delimiters ',' with null as '';

Hope this will Help you.
rgds
Ashish Lahori
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of Kevin Old
Sent: Tuesday, 29 October 2002 11:23 PM
To: beginners(at)perl(dot)org
Cc: pgsql
Subject: [GENERAL] Stream data into Postgres via Perl

Hello all,

I'm writing a script that will read pipe delimited data from a text file
and insert various fields into a Postgres table. Below is some code I'm
trying to optimize:

while (<FHD>) {
chomp; #removes \n
chop; #removes trailing pipe

@line = split(/\|/, $_, 502); #The line has 502 "fields" so
#them into an array
$dbh->do("INSERT INTO cdl_16master VALUES(nextval('cdl_16_seq'),\'"
.
join("\',\'",
$line[0],$line[4],$line[5],$line[6],$line[10],$line[11],$line[14],$line[18],
$lin
e[22],$line[25]) . "\')");
$dbh->commit();

} #end while

Just wondering if anyone has a better way of accessing the data in the
array or of storing the few fields I need temporarily until it gets
inserted into the database.

There's a better way to do this, but I'm just not thinking right.....any
suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,

Kevin
kold(at)carolina(dot)rr(dot)com

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