Re: Create a pg table from CSV with header rows

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:41:59AM -0400, Doug Bloebaum wrote:
> On 9/15/05, Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)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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