Re: insert vs. copy in pgAdmin - Mailing list pgsql-novice

On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 15:59 +0000, Schlaffer, Sharon wrote:
> When I use the import (csv) into a table feature, it makes a copy. This is not working for our
>  database folks (they need to auto-populate a date/time field and for whatever reason,
>  cannot do this if I “copy” the csv into the db).

Try to get a detailed technical description of your DBAs' problems.

> Is there a way to import and stipulate “insert” instead (using pgAdmin, that is).

I don't think so.

But you can COPY to a temporary table and then use

  INSERT INTO ... SELECT ...

to populate the target table from the temporary table.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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