Re: IMPORT TOOL

lkwan(at)nuvo(dot)com (Louie Kwan) writes:
> Do anyone of you aware of any PG import tool same as SQL*LOADER in ORACLE
>
> We are doing some DataWarehouse work and need to import a large set of data
> from csv files.
>
> We are trying a import tool from ems-hitech.com, but I have troubles when
> loading time and date columns.
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Louie
>
> ------ | Creating NNM_HOST Table
> ------ |
>
> CREATE TABLE NNM_NODES (
> lastLoadTime_e DATE,
> domain_name VARCHAR(10),
> ----
> ovtopo_id INTEGER NOT NULL,
> node_type VARCHAR(10),
> node_name VARCHAR(30),
> ov_status VARCHAR(10),
> ipaddress VARCHAR(15)
> );
> data.csv
> --------
> 31/01/2004,D1H01,845,IP,dfrQCQCRD1,Normal,142.130.35.1
> 31/01/2004,D1H01,849,IP,dfrQCIMCP1,Normal,142.130.130.33
> 31/01/2004,D1H01,853,IP,dfrQCSIBL1,Normal,142.130.130.19

At this point, the 'equivalent' to SQL*LOADER is some combination of
Perl, Python, Tcl, or some other favorite scripting language.

I seem to recall that someone (he'll remain nameless :-)) was working
on a tool rather like this; I'm not sure where deployment of that
stands.
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