Thread: Is it possible to import .txt files in PostgreySQL
Hi All,
Is it possible to import data from .txt files into PostgreySQL
7.1.3. If so , How do I do it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Murali
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On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 05:40:42PM +0530, Murali Mohan Kasetty wrote: > Hi All, > > Is it possible to import data from .txt files into PostgreySQL > 7.1.3. If so , How do I do it? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. \copy in psql can copy delimited files. There is a similar facility using the pq library. -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that can do binary > arithmetic and those that can't.
--- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 05:40:42PM +0530, Murali > Mohan Kasetty wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Is it possible to import data from .txt files > into PostgreySQL > > 7.1.3. If so , How do I do it? > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > \copy in psql can copy delimited files. There is a > similar facility using > the pq library. > One small point: if your .txt file originated on a Windows machine, the lines will be terminated by carriage return/line feed pairs. Since unix-type operating systems only recognize the line feed as a line terminator, the carriage return would be included in your data. This is almost certainly not what you want. You would need to delete those carriage returns before importing your data. Something like: perl -pi -e 's/\r$//' <datafile> __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com
Or use dos2unix... --Walt -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Eckermann [mailto:jeff_eckermann@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 1:03 PM To: Martijn van Oosterhout; Murali Mohan Kasetty Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Is it possible to import .txt files in PostgreySQL --- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 05:40:42PM +0530, Murali > Mohan Kasetty wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Is it possible to import data from .txt files > into PostgreySQL > > 7.1.3. If so , How do I do it? > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > \copy in psql can copy delimited files. There is a > similar facility using > the pq library. > One small point: if your .txt file originated on a Windows machine, the lines will be terminated by carriage return/line feed pairs. Since unix-type operating systems only recognize the line feed as a line terminator, the carriage return would be included in your data. This is almost certainly not what you want. You would need to delete those carriage returns before importing your data. Something like: perl -pi -e 's/\r$//' <datafile> __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org)