Re: COPY FROM (query) in plpgsql - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vincent Veyron
Subject Re: COPY FROM (query) in plpgsql
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Msg-id 1314111563.2295.55.camel@asus-1001PX.home
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In response to COPY FROM (query) in plpgsql  ("Marc Mamin" <M.Mamin@intershop.de>)
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Le mardi 23 août 2011 à 11:29 +0200, Marc Mamin a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> there seems to be no way to use COPY this way, so I guess this is a
> feature request...
>
> this may also help users who tried using COPY FROM STDIN in plpgsql.
>
>
> I have a query with a lot of string manipulation that returns data as
> single strings, e.g.:
>
>
> 'a,12,ght,45,1.2'
> 'b,13,ght,45,1.1'
> 'a,14,ght,45,1.5'
>
>
> in order to save this result into a table, I still need to quote the
> string value and use EXECUTE:
>

If you can write the data to disk, this gets you rid of the quote
problem :

COPY query TO 'file.csv';

COPY foo FROM 'file.csv' WITH CSV DELIMITER ',';


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