devtest2=# \h copy
Command: COPY
Description: copy data between files and tables
Syntax:
COPY [ BINARY ] table [ WITH OIDS ]
FROM { 'filename' | stdin }
[ [USING] DELIMITERS 'delimiter' ]
[ WITH NULL AS 'null string' ]
COPY [ BINARY ] table [ WITH OIDS ]
TO { 'filename' | stdout }
[ [USING] DELIMITERS 'delimiter' ]
[ WITH NULL AS 'null string' ]
Hence
COPY t1 FROM '<filename>' USING DELIMITERS ',';
Terry Fielder
Network Engineer
Great Gulf Homes / Ashton Woods Homes
terry@greatgulfhomes.com
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Patrick Nelson
> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 1:45 PM
> To: PostgreSQL List (E-mail)
> Subject: [GENERAL] Import csv
>
>
> I'm away from my PostgreSQL book (me SQL bible) and I'm faced
> with importing
> csv (comma separated vales) file where I had setup all my
> scripts to tsv
> (tab separated vales). Yes I can use an editor, as such and
> change the
> commas, but that's not the question.
>
> How do I take a basic csv file and insert it into my table (named
> dwnldstockanal)? Just feel that this is something that I
> should know, but
> me scratches me head.
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