Re: Postgresql Copy

Yeah, that's what I do as well.  With just a little
bit of work you can make this sort of thing really
easy to do.  The trick is to create a script (I
generally use Python as well, but Perl is good too)
that reads from stdin and writes to stdout and that
looks like what pg_dump spits out (which is very
trivial).  That way you can use it like this:

cat my_file | custom_filter | psql -e my_database

making it easy to automate.

Jason

--- Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think that is correct.  If I'm wrong, I'm sure
> I'll
> be corrected.
>
> I import fixed width data using one of two methods:
>
> 1.  I import the data into MS Access, which can deal
> with fixed width data; and then I move the data to
> PostgreSQL via ODBC connection.
>
> 2.  There's a huge fixed width file that I receive
> every quarter.  Since the structure is the same, I
> wrote a python script that copies the data to a new
> file, inserting tab delimiters and stripping out the
> extra spaces as it goes.  The resulting file is
> often
> one third the size of the original.  I then use copy
> to import the tab delimited data into PostgreSQL.
>
> If you'd like me to send the python script, let me
> know.  Basically, you'll have to adjust the file to
> fit your data table's definition.  (Or send me the
> definition of one table and I'll adjust it this
> once.)
>  In any case, the original file is left unchanged
> should anything go wrong.
>
> Best of luck,
>
> Andrew Gould
>
>
>
> --- "samsom, debra" <dsamsom@bristol.ca> wrote:
> > Is there away to copy fixed length text files into
> > an Postgresql table.
> > After reading the doc's it looks Postgresql
> expects
> > some sort of delimiter.
> >
>
>
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