From: Goutam Paruchuri <gparuchuri@oneil.com>
To: Marek Lewczuk <newsy@lewczuk.com>
To: Lista dyskusyjna pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
To: Lista dyskusyjna pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: how to use COPY within plperl
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:04:00 -0500
Message-ID: <B2C547DF42419645804F05B54290755ADC7C9A@DAYTONEX.oneilinc.net> (raw)
Why can you not use simple insert statements (sql insert).
Copy is meant to transfer large amount of data from text files to
databases and vice versa.
- Goutam
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> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Marek Lewczuk
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> Subject: [GENERAL] how to use COPY within plperl
>
>
> Hello,
> I need to use COPY (instead of INSERT) within plperl
> function. I know that COPY will work if data will be taken
> from file - however I need to use STDIN. I tried this:
> spi_exec_query("COPY sometable (field1, field2) FROM
> stdin;"."\n"."sometext"."\t"."sometext"."\n"."\.")
>
> But it didn't work. Thanks in advance.
>
>
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> TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index
> scan if your
> joining column's datatypes do not match
>
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