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From Willy-Bas Loos
Subject Re: importing a messy text file
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In response to Re: importing a messy text file  (Rémi Cura <remi.cura@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: importing a messy text file  (Rob Sargentg <robjsargent@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Rémi Cura <remi.cura@gmail.com> wrote:
with latest version 9.3 you can use a copy from with a programm as argument.
You can use the unix | pipe for most of the stuff.

If you have an older version you can use the mkfifo command to "trick" postgres into believing he will copy from a file.


Hi, you're right i can see the new feature in the docs.
But since i am working from the (bash) command line already, i don't see any use for this.
I already pass the data like this:
cat <file> |psql -c "copy <table> from stdin NULL ''" <db> > <file>.log 2>&1

It's especially handy if you want to stay in sql(transaction), i gues.

Cheers,

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Willy-Bas Loos

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