2009/8/6 Frank Bax <fbax@sympatico.ca>:
> Intengu Technologies wrote:
>>
>> Please assist me with how to import a csv file into PostgreSQL that
>> has the following structure - http://pastebin.com/m56bb6cb2.
>>
>> The challenges are these:
>> 1. import the whole csv into one table - problem is the number of
>> fields will not be the same for the various rows, the csv has no field
>> names
>> 2. split this one table into the various tables - a total of 6 tables
>> 3. update the field names with the correct names
>
> create table intengu1 (...)
> create table intengu2 (...)
> create table intengu3 (...)
> create table intengu4 (...)
> create table intengu5 (...)
> create table intengu6 (...)
>
> grep ^.1. /tmp/intengu.txt | psql -c "copy intengu1 from STDIN CSV;"
> grep ^.2. /tmp/intengu.txt | psql -c "copy intengu2 from STDIN CSV;"
> grep ^.3. /tmp/intengu.txt | psql -c "copy intengu3 from STDIN CSV;"
> grep ^.4. /tmp/intengu.txt | psql -c "copy intengu4 from STDIN CSV;"
> grep ^.5. /tmp/intengu.txt | psql -c "copy intengu5 from STDIN CSV;"
> grep ^.6. /tmp/intengu.txt | psql -c "copy intengu6 from STDIN CSV;"
heh :)
Good point. I probably need some sleep.
--
Michael Wood <esiotrot@gmail.com>
