I think you need the quote around the file name since it's not a keyword and it's text.
Then your dns.txt file needs to be formated correctly, especially concerning the separator : by default I think TABs
areused and \N is used to say NULL. You can go aver that with USING DELIMITERS ';' for example and WITH NULL AS '' if
yourdns.txt look like this :
aeomc04;10.121.4.157
somcmd1;10.121.23.57
aeomc05;10.121.4.162
gsmomc6;10.121.4.154
hope this helps
Arnaud
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duncan Adams (DNS)" <duncan.adams@vcontractor.co.za>
To: "postgres sql list" <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 4:53 PM
Subject: [SQL] copy command
hi all
how do you use the copy command
call me dumb, i have RTFM but i don't seem to get it.
an exstract from my dns.txt file.
aeomc04 10.121.4.157
somcmd1 10.121.23.57
aeomc05 10.121.4.162
gsmomc6 10.121.4.154
wire_dev=> copy dns_ip from dns.txt
wire_dev-> ;
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "dns"
wire_dev=> copy dns_ip from /database/pgsql/dns.txt
wire_dev-> ;
ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "/"
wire_dev=>
wire_dev=> \d dns_ip Table "dns_ip"Attribute | Type | Modifier
-----------+-----------------------+----------dns | character varying(32) |ip | character varying(32) |
thanx
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