Re: New to Postgres

From: Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Mike Nees <jmnees(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: New to Postgres
Date: 2006-08-12 00:11:21
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> I'm new to PostgreSQL. I have a background as an Oracle PL/SQL programmer. I'm wondering if
> there's a comparable Postgres utility to Oracle's SQL*Loader? I have several large fixed record
> length files that I need to load into the Postgres db. Currently, I'm using the COPY command to
> load the data into temporary tables; I then parse the data and insert into a new table. I'm
> wondering if there is a better solution. Any help would be appreciated.J. Michael Nees
> jmnees(at)hotmail(dot)com

The may be some tools that you could search for under the section "other software"
http://www.postgresql.org/download/

However, most of the answers to questions like yours boil down to how well you know perl or
plperl.

:-)

Regards,

Richard Broersma Jr.

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