Re: update table from internet site - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mike Nolan
Subject Re: update table from internet site
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Msg-id 200408251823.i7PINFxg001518@gw.tssi.com
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In response to update table from internet site  (Ennio-Sr <nasr.laili@tin.it>)
List pgsql-general
> I'm thinking about creating a table listing my shares (say 'Shares') and
> then update its price column from a .txt file (say 'Prices') downloaded
> from an internet site periodically.

You'd probably be better off writing a small program in a language like
PHP or perl that reads the text file and updates the table.  That way
the program can deal with bad data and other possible errors.
--
Mike Nolan

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