Re: Multiple COPYs

rasdj@frontiernet.net writes:

> Hello,
>
> Having a great time with PG - ported an erp from oracle and db2. First
> I tried MySql but choked somewhere in the 900 table region. I have a
> python script to translate the syntax and it loads about 2000 tables.
>
> Now I want to COPY my dumps - I have 1 data dump for each table. Any
> tips on what to use so that I can read the file name into a variable
> and pass it as the file name in the COPY command and have one script
> load all my tables?

Should be pretty easy from the shell, something like (untested):

for f in *.sql; do
  tablename=`basename $f .sql`
  psql -c "\\copy $tablename from $f" mydatabase
done

-Doug