On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 01:25:00PM +0200, Allan Kamau wrote:
> The alternative I am attempting is to use "COPY abc FROM STDIN WITH
> HEADER". I pipe the contents of the CSV file on my PC to the psql
> command (that connects to the remote PC) while issuing this copy command.
> This does seems not to work.
It does whenever I try it and if you've ever restored from a pg_dump
then you've used it as well!
> Is there a way around it.
When I've had a CSV file and needed to bung it into a database, I've
tended to end up with shell scripts like this before:
( echo 'COPY abc FROM STDIN WITH CSV HEADER;'
cat "$1"
echo '\.'
) | psql
an alternative is to use the "\copy" feature inside psql that does this
sort of thing internally. One thing to be aware of is that it doesn't
expect a semicolon at the end of the line, but is otherwise the same as
the SQL COPY command.
Sam
