Re: COPY from stdin;

On May 16, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Peter Schonefeld wrote:

> Hi, I'm curious as to how to get the following snippet from a backup
> file to
> run as a script?
>
> COPY country (id, name) FROM stdin;
> 1    Afghanistan
> 2    Albania
> 3    Algeria
> 4    American Samoa
> 5    Andorra
> 6    Angola
>


Assuming you have tabs there between the values, just put it in a file
and execute it with psql (same way it is used in a backup file).

psql -f thefile database

If you want to have other commands after this in the file, put \. on a
line by itself after the last row:

6    Angola
\.



John DeSoi, Ph.D.
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