Re: [GENERAL] Importing delimited files

On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, kheflin wrote:

> I've usually imported any delimited text files into my PostgreSQL
> databases using "PGACCESS" which has worked great for me. Our System
> Admin here is wanting to import a delimited text file into a postgresql
> database using the psql command line...
>
> any suggestions?
>
> Kevin

Hi,

I just finished loading 54,000 + records into postgres, from the command
line.

$ pgsql -e dbname < loadfile

At the top of the file I put;
COPY table_name FROM stdin;

At EOF I put:
\.

BTW, loading 54353 records (22 attributes) into a db took about 4 minutes
on a 486 dx2/66 (all scsi) with a lowly 32M of RAM...

Once I created my index, selecting one record from this soup takes less
than a second (linux 2.0.27)...

Good luck!
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