Re: Data loading from a flat file... - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: Data loading from a flat file...
Date
Msg-id 20060106050544.GA81795@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to Data loading from a flat file...  (Angshu Kar <angshu96@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:51:55PM -0600, Angshu Kar wrote:
> I've a table schema in pg say as:
>
> (A B C D E)
>
> where none of these fields allow null.
>
> Now, I've a flat file that has got tab-delimited data for B,C and E fields.
> And A,B come from sequences.
>
> Could anyone please let me know how I can upload the complete dataset into
> the table?

See the documentation for COPY (or \copy in psql).  If you need to
adjust sequence values after the load you can use ALTER SEQUENCE
or the setval() function.

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Michael Fuhr

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