Re: COPY - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: COPY
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0208061940020.14079-100000@cm-lcon1-46-187.cm.vtr.net
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In response to COPY  (linux_211@hotmail.com (igor))
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igor dijo:

> I am using the copy command for copy very large database. But I am
> using it like it's described in tutorial "copy table from
> '/file'..etc". So it takes a lot of time copy each table. Is there any
> way how to create some function to copy all the directory ,or
> something like foreach (table)...? That directory would contain
> prepared tables already. I do not know lot about PostgreSQL functions
> ,so I am asking some advice.

It should be very simple to write on in Perl or shell to do that,
something like

for i in /where/dumps/reside/*.dump; do
    psql -c "copy table from $i" && mv $i $i.old
done

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