update from a csv file? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Kirk Wythers
Subject update from a csv file?
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Msg-id 549D5BE9-77D4-4F12-9F27-0ED0BEB39577@umn.edu
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I have been using COPY FROM to do a mass import of records from CSV files into a new database. I have discover however,
asmall number of records ( a few thousand) in one of the files that contain new data that needs to be added to the
database,but on rows that have a primary key and have already been inserted (so I can't use COPY FROM because it
violatesthe primary key).  

If the structure of the table is

id    data1    data2    data3

and the structure of the CSV file is

id    data1    data2    data3

and I need to update all the rows in data3 where the id = id.

Is this a job for the UPDATE command? or is there a better way to pull data from a CSV file in order to do a mass
update?

Thanks

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