Re: New to Postgres

> I'm new to PostgreSQL.  I have a background as an Oracle PL/SQL programmer.  I'm wondering if
> there's a comparable Postgres utility to Oracle's SQL*Loader?  I have several large fixed record
> length files that I need to load into the Postgres db.  Currently, I'm using the COPY command to
> load the data into temporary tables; I then parse the data and insert into a new table.   I'm
> wondering if there is a better solution.  Any help would be appreciated.J. Michael Nees
> jmnees@hotmail.com

The may be some tools that you could search for under the section "other software"
http://www.postgresql.org/download/


However, most of the answers to questions like yours boil down to how well you know perl or
plperl.

:-)

Regards,

Richard Broersma Jr.