Re: Create a pg table from CSV with header rows

From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
To: robert(at)webtent(dot)com
Cc: PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Create a pg table from CSV with header rows
Date: 2005-09-16 02:11:32
Message-ID: 20050916021132.GA81960@winnie.fuhr.org
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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

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