From: T E Schmitz <mailreg@numerixtechnology.de>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: import CSV file
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:44:02 +0000
Message-ID: <45F73742.2080505@numerixtechnology.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070313182740.ef40e742.darcy@druid.net>
References: <45F70BC9.801@numerixtechnology.de>
<20070313182740.ef40e742.darcy@druid.net>
D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:38:33 +0000
> T E Schmitz <mailreg@numerixtechnology.de> wrote:
>
>>I am trying to batch-load a tab-separated CSV file:
>>
>>psql -h lolek -U tes -d stockmarket -c "copy history from
>>'/tmp/FTSE.csv' CSV";
>>
>>ERROR: could not open file "/tmp/FTSE.csv" for reading: No such file or
>>directory
>>
>>The file exists. Do I need to escape the quotes?
>
>
> From the "-h" option I assume that the server is not on the local
> machine and hence the file is not available to the server. You need to
> do something like this:
>
> psql -h lolek -U tes -d stockmarket -c "copy history from STDIN CSV" < /tmp/FTSE.csv
>
This is pretty ingenious!
Just a few minor problems:
- how does COPY know which column is which?
- how do I specify DELIMITER as TAB?
--
Regards/Gruß,
Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz
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