Re: bulk loader - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Christopher Browne
Subject Re: bulk loader
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Msg-id m34qcypn64.fsf@knuth.cbbrowne.com
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In response to bulk loader  (Hrishikesh Deshmukh <hdeshmuk@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, hdeshmuk@gmail.com (Hrishikesh Deshmukh) belched out:
> Is there a "bulk loader" in postgresql with which one can read in say
> a tab delimited format text file. Before one does all one has to do is
> create the table with text file column names as attributes, once it is
> on DBMS world it will be a simple table (non-relational)!!!!

There is the built in "COPY" command which can do this sort of thing.

Jan Wieck wrote a "load" tool that does a more sophisticated job of
slicing up the data.  Look at pgFoundry.org for "pgloader".  There are
thoughts of trying to make this work much like Oracle's SQL*Loader
product.
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