I believe COPY is limited to reading ENTIRE records into a table not pieces
of them.
len morgan
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Boes <jboes@nexcerpt.com>
To: Postgres-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: Friday, May 25, 2001 9:20 AM
Subject: [GENERAL] COPY with default values?
>Let's say I have a table of keywords, with a SERIAL primary key.
>
>CREATE TABLE keywords (
> key_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
> key_text TEXT
>);
>
>Now I would like to initialize this table with a COPY statement, but
>without supplying values for the primary key. In other words, how can I
>use COPY to perform the same function as
>
>INSERT INTO keywords (keyword_text) VALUES ('foo');
>INSERT INTO keywords (keyword_text) VALUES ('bar');
>...
>
>I have tried
>
>COPY keywords FROM stdin USING DELIMITERS '|';
>|foo
>|bar
>...
>
>and also
>
>0|foo
>0|bar
>
>and even
>
>\N|foo
>\N|bar
>
>I even tried creating a view on keywords that has only keyword_text, and
>copying into THAT--no luck. Then I wrote a rule to replace inserts on the
>view with inserts on the table, but apparently COPY doesn't trigger INSERT
>rules. Grumble...
>
>
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