Re: Importing a CSV file to a table on Postgres

am Fri, dem 04.05.2007, um 12:48:24 +0100 mailte Oliveiros Cristina folgendes:
> Hello, list.
>
> I have a CSV file with two values/row and I would like to import it into a
> table who has two columns as well.
>
> Is there an easy and expedited way to do this with Postgres administration tool
> (PgAdmin)? I can do a program that parses the file and INSERTs the values on
> table, but I suspect that there is an easy way and that it is not worth the
> effort.

I'm not familiar with PGAdmin, but with console you can use a way like
this to insert the contents of a CSV-file into a database table on a
remote host:

cat <file.csv> | ssh <host> "psql -U <user> <database> -c 'copy <table> from stdin;'"

Andreas
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