If I have a table that has a column called id that I would like to have a
incrementing field. However, the data that I'm importing doesn't have that
field. I though that using a sequence would work, but that doesn't seem to
do it, here was the setup:
CREATE SEQUENCE "mss_id_seq" start 1 increment 1 maxvalue 2147483647
minvalue 1 cache 1;
SELECT nextval ('"mss_id_seq"');
CREATE TABLE "mss" (
"id" int4 DEFAULT nextval('mss_id_seq'::text) NOT NULL,
"ind" int4 NOT NULL,
"syb" varchar(5) NOT NULL,
"nam" varchar(50) NOT NULL,
"yts" varchar(50) NOT NULL,
"bys" int4 NOT NULL,
"byr" int4 NOT NULL,
"hld" int4 NOT NULL,
"ser" int4 NOT NULL,
"ses" int4 NOT NULL,
"tor" int4 NOT NULL,
"wor" numeric(5,2) NOT NULL,
"dat" varchar(50) NOT NULL,
);
Then I import using psql command:
COPY mss FROM '/subset.csv' USING DELIMITERS ',';
Which imports a file like:
,1,SLWS,SLWS DATA,$489.18M,6,1,1,0,0,8,1.37,Sat Jun 29 12:42:47 PDT 2002
,2,SRDE,SRDE DATA,$232.30M,0,0,2,0,0,2,3,Sat Jun 29 12:43:00 PDT 2002
...
However, id doesn't get populated with a sequence of numbers. Note that the
1 and 2 of the above import file is being properly dumped into ind, even
though I have to add "," to the beginning of each line. So I think that I
don't really get it. Hmm...
What I would like the data to look like (from the above import) is like:
id ind syb nam yts bys byr hld ser ses tor wor dat
-- --- ---- --------- -------- --- --- --- --- --- --- ----
----------------------------
1 1 SLWS SLWS DATA $489.18M 6 1 1 0 0 8 1.37 Sat Jun 29
12:42:47 PDT 2002
2 2 SRDE SRDE DATA $232.30M 0 0 2 0 0 2 3 Sat Jun 29
12:43:00 PDT 2002
Where I could make the id as the primary key. What don't I get?
