On Sep 27, 2006, at 20:39 , Peter wrote:
>> Using COPY avoids this issue ofcourse, because there's a direct
>> link to the table. Similarly, as of 8.2 it will be possible to do:
>> INSERT INTO table (blah) VALUES (x,y,a),(f,d,g),(s,f,g), etc...
>> Which will also avoid the issue.
> COPY wont work... my list of columns for insert is also dynamically
> built and will never cover all fields in table.
How about doing the two-step? Create a temp table with the columns
you're going to load, COPY into the temp table, and do a INSERT INTO
table (...) SELECT ... FROM temp_table?
Michael Glaesemann
grzm seespotcode net
