Re: Can I read data load files without loading in db?

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 12:27:09PM -0700, barryc(dot)ctr(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
> We have an awkward situation.
>
> An affiliate organization periodically sends us a stack of CDs. On
> the first one there are a couple of small scripts to handle installing
> the data and/or upgrading the database schema. Most of the CD's
> contents are large data files to be used to update a postgresql
> database.

I assume from the question that the data is in pg_dump format? i.e. a
whole pile of COPY statements with data?

In that case just write a perl script to extract the data.

Or specify more precisely if that's not the problem.

Have anice day,
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