Re: [GENERAL] FW: How to upload data to postgres

I also plan to try to export data in XML format (from Ingres) and import
it to Postgres.

I didn't find any utility for importing XML data into Postgres. Or just
looking at the wrong document?
I run Postgres 8.2.4

Thanks,
Nina

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:aklaver@comcast.net]
Sent: September 10, 2008 10:39
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Cc: Markova, Nina; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] FW: How to upload data to postgres

On Wednesday 10 September 2008 7:14:50 am Markova, Nina wrote:
> Thanks Adrian.
>
> I have read the Postgres 'copy' - the problem is that Postgres doesn't

> understand Ingres format. This is I think where the failure comes
from.
> If I don't find a tool, I have to write scripts to convert data to
> something postgres understand.
>
> In the Ingres file with data for each varchar field, before the field
> is the real size :
>
>     48070           820010601       820030210        41.890
> -80.811           0.000         1U
>     3A16            819871030       0        47.471         -70.006
> 0.015         1R      0
>
> In the example above:
>  3A16 - means for varchar(5) field there are only characters, i.e. A16

> 48070 - means for varchar(5) field there are only 4 characters, i.e.
> 8070
> 819871030 - 8 characters, i.e. 19871030

That would be the problem. The COPY from Postgres does not understand
the metadata associated with the field data and would try to insert the
complete string. I can see three options:
1) As has been suggested in another other post, export the Ingres data
as data only CSV i.e 'A16' not '3A16'
2) Your suggestion of cleaning up data via a script.
3) Create holding table in Postgres that has varchar() fields (varchar
with no length specified) and import into and then do your data cleanup
before moving over to final table.

>
>  When I created the same table in Postgres, inserted some test data
> and later copied it to a file, this is how it looks like:
>
> A16     19871030                47.471  -70.006 0.015   R
> KLNO    19801028                47.473  -70.006 0.016   R
> MLNO    19801028        19990101        47.413  -70.006 0.016   R
>
>    Column    |          Type          |               Modifiers
>
> -------------+------------------------+-------------------------------
> -------------+------------------------+--
> -------
>  sta         | character varying(5)   | not null
>  ondate      | character varying(8)   | not null
>  offdate     | character varying(8)   | not null
>  lat         | double precision       | not null
>  lon         | double precision       | not null
>  elev        | double precision       | not null default 0
>  regist_code | character(1)           | not null default ' '::bpchar
>
>
> Nina
>





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