Re: serial, sequence, and COPY FROM

Serial fields have a default value of nextval, so if you add an 18th
field to your text file with DEFAULT in every record it should work as
intended.

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Brandon Aiken
CS/IT Systems Engineer

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of
rloefgren@forethought.net
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 12:28 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] serial, sequence, and COPY FROM

All,

I have a pipe delimited text file I'm trying to copy to a table. The
file has 17 fields per line. The table has 18, with that last field
(record) a serial with sequence. I have done:
select setval('sequence_name_seq', 555, 'TRUE')
but when I do: COPY tablename FROM '/path/to/file/file.txt' delimiter
'|'
the copy stops at the first row, insisting that it's missing data for
the field record. Well, yeah...
I can make this work with inserts but not with COPY FROM. What I've
been doing is dumping it into a mysql table with an auto_increment
field and then dumping that into a text file and using that for the
COPY FROM; certainly clumsy. How might this be done?

r


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