Re: COPY FROM

John Poltorak wrote:
  >
  >Does anyone have an example on using COPY FROM?
  >
  >It isn't explained very well in the docs...

CREATE TABLE junk (id INTEGER, name TEXT);

COPY junk FROM stdin DELIMITERS ',';
1,Fred
2,George
\.


or have in a file /tmp/input:
1    Fred
2    George

(tab-separated fields).  Then

COPY junk FROM '/tmp/input';

/tmp/input has to be readable by the backend.

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