Обсуждение: Import textfile as table
Hello, I have gotten a 16 MByte textfile with around 27.000 lines of data which contains a database with 22 fields which are <TAB> seperated. How can I import it into a (new) table and or new database of pgsql. Thanks in advance Michelle -- Registered Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org.
On 2 Oct 2002 at 18:01, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello, > > I have gotten a 16 MByte textfile with around 27.000 lines of data > which contains a database with 22 fields which are <TAB> seperated. > > How can I import it into a (new) table and or new > database of pgsql. You can use \copy in psql. I don't know how would you specify tab as delimeter. May be you should convert it to some other delimeter like ':' or ',' if tab does not work. Get a small chunk of that file. First 100 records or so and experiment. Otherwise it might get quite irritating..;-) Bye Shridhar -- White's Statement: Don't lose heart!Owen's Commentary on White's Statement: ...they might want to cut it out...Byrd's Addition to Owen's Commentary: ...and they want to avoid a lengthy search.
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On 2 Oct 2002 at 18:01, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have gotten a 16 MByte textfile with around 27.000 lines of data > > which contains a database with 22 fields which are <TAB> seperated. > > > > How can I import it into a (new) table and or new > > database of pgsql. > > You can use \copy in psql. I don't know how would you specify tab as delimeter. > May be you should convert it to some other delimeter like ':' or ',' if tab > does not work. Tab is the separator for COPY. I'm not sure about \copy but I presume it's going to be the same since it probably only does a copy in from stdin. > > Get a small chunk of that file. First 100 records or so and experiment. > Otherwise it might get quite irritating..;-) Very irritating. -- Nigel J. Andrews
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On 2 Oct 2002 at 18:01, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have gotten a 16 MByte textfile with around 27.000 lines of data > > which contains a database with 22 fields which are <TAB> seperated. > > > > How can I import it into a (new) table and or new > > database of pgsql. > > You can use \copy in psql. I don't know how would you specify tab as delimeter. > May be you should convert it to some other delimeter like ':' or ',' if tab > does not work. > > Get a small chunk of that file. First 100 records or so and experiment. > Otherwise it might get quite irritating..;-) Actually, tab is the default seperator for pg_dump and copy, so it should work as is.
Hello, if you seed it sometimes... thanks to 'rovero' >Run psql...... >create table table_name......... >copy table_name from '/full/path/to/file' using delimiters '\t'; Michelle Am 15:34 2002-10-03 +0530 hat Shridhar Daithankar geschrieben: > >On 2 Oct 2002 at 18:01, Michelle Konzack wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have gotten a 16 MByte textfile with around 27.000 lines of data >> which contains a database with 22 fields which are <TAB> seperated. >> >> How can I import it into a (new) table and or new >> database of pgsql. > >You can use \copy in psql. I don't know how would you specify tab as delimeter. >May be you should convert it to some other delimeter like ':' or ',' if tab >does not work. > >Get a small chunk of that file. First 100 records or so and experiment. >Otherwise it might get quite irritating..;-) > > >Bye > Shridhar > >-- >White's Statement: Don't lose heart!Owen's Commentary on White's Statement: >...they might want to cut it out...Byrd's Addition to Owen's Commentary: ...and >they want to avoid a lengthy search. > > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@postgresql.org > > > ########## Get the Power of Debian/GNU-Linux ##########