Re: Assistance in importing a csv file into Postgresql

Thanks for the pointers will try them.

On 25/05/2009, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> * Intengu Technologies (sindile.bidla@gmail.com) wrote:
>> What I would like to do is
>>
>> If field1=1 make table1 and insert the rest of field1=1 into this table
>> If field1=2 make table2 and insert the rest of field1=2 into this table
>>
>> Hence in this example one will have table1, table2, table3, table4,
>> table5 and table6
>>
>> How can I accomplish this using the COPY command.
>
> This currently can't be done with the COPY command directly.  There are
> a couple of options:
>
> #1- Have a single table with a trigger on it that does this for you
> #2- Write a simple perl script which does this for you
> #3- Load the data into one table and then use SQL to move it to the
>     other tables (which you would need to create first)
>
> Enjoy,
>
>     Stephen
>


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