Message-ID: <20040312145554.85865.qmail@web20808.mail.yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 06:55:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Jeff Eckermann <jeff_eckermann@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: sqlloader features
To: azwa@nc.com.my, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
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--- azwa@nc.com.my wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
> 
>    does postgresql support for the sql loader
> functionality like oracle 
> does ??? if no, is there any tools specific to do
> this task connect to 
> postgresql database???
> i'm looking into open-source tools that can do
> import & export facility. 
> thanks in advance

The PostgreSQL "COPY" command is very efficient at
bulk loading, but has restrictive requirements as to
the data formats that it will accept.

I haven't tried this one, but it might work for you:
http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgimport/projdisplay.php

Otherwise your best alternative is probably to write a
custom script using something like Perl, TCL, Awk or
Sed to edit your data, which can then be piped to
COPY.  Something like:
perlscript datafile | psql -c "copy table from stdin"
database

You can read about "COPY" in the "SQL Commands"
section of the manual.
> 
> 


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