On 10/1/07, pere roca ristol <peroc79@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I want to enter a .CSV file using COPY comand and plpgsql.
> It enters latitude,longitude and some data. In the CSV data there is no
> field (such as "user_name" or current_time) that allow distinguish future
> queries for different users (ex: select x,y from table where user_name=z;
> after entering lat,lon I would like to update the_geom in another table
> using the lat,lon of ONLY this user).
> I could update this kind of data ("user_name") using php but next user
> could not enter his data by COPY (it only lets fill the destination table if
> ALL the fields are the same as the CSV or text file).
I'm not a 100% certain I understand what you're trying
to achieve, but to me this looks like a mis-use? Why
not use the relational features of your RDBMS and just
pick a location from a table created once via a unique
value you assign during (or after) the COPY?
> Thanks,
> Pere
Cheers,
Andrej
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