Create a pg table from CSV with header rows
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 06:48:59PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
Anyone know a package that can do this? Perferrably a Unix/Linux
package.
It would be trivial to write a script in a language like Perl to
read the first line of a file and generate a CREATE TABLE statement
from it, then issue a COPY command and send the rest of the file.
Determining the columns' data types would be a different matter:
if they weren't specified in the header then you'd have to guess
or perhaps make them all text.
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Michael Fuhr
On 9/15/05, Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 06:48:59PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
Anyone know a package that can do this? Perferrably a Unix/Linux
package.It would be trivial to write a script in a language like Perl to
read the first line of a file and generate a CREATE TABLE statement
from it, then issue a COPY command and send the rest of the file.
Determining the columns' data types would be a different matter:
if they weren't specified in the header then you'd have to guess
or perhaps make them all text.
I've attached a sample implementation of Michael's suggestion.
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On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:41:59AM -0400, Doug Bloebaum wrote:
On 9/15/05, Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 06:48:59PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
Anyone know a package that can do this? Perferrably a Unix/Linux
package.It would be trivial to write a script in a language like Perl to
read the first line of a file and generate a CREATE TABLE statement
from it, then issue a COPY command and send the rest of the file.
Determining the columns' data types would be a different matter:
if they weren't specified in the header then you'd have to guess
or perhaps make them all text.I've attached a sample implementation of Michael's suggestion.
I've attached what I hope is a slightly improved one :)
Cheers,
D
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