From: Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Subject: Re: IMPORT TOOL
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:14:22 -0500
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lkwan@nuvo.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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