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From: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: Schlaffer, Sharon <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: insert vs. copy in pgAdmin
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 13:32:08 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 15:59 +0000, Schlaffer, Sharon wrote:
> When I use the import (csv) into a table feature, it makes a copy. This is not working for our
>  database folks (they need to auto-populate a date/time field and for whatever reason,
>  cannot do this if I “copy” the csv into the db).

Try to get a detailed technical description of your DBAs' problems.

> Is there a way to import and stipulate “insert” instead (using pgAdmin, that is).

I don't think so.

But you can COPY to a temporary table and then use

  INSERT INTO ... SELECT ...

to populate the target table from the temporary table.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
-- 
Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com

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