From: | Murthy Kambhampaty <murthy(dot)kambhampaty(at)goeci(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: importing db as text files |
Date: | 2003-08-14 20:33:16 |
Message-ID: | 2D92FEBFD3BE1346A6C397223A8DD3FC0923AA@THOR.goeci.com |
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On Wednesday, August 13, 2003 17:59, Gregory S. Williamson
[mailto:gsw(at)globexplorer(dot)com] wrote:
>
>I tend to use perl to preprocess dumps (in our case from
>Informix). It tends to work much faster than shell scripts
>(although your mileage may vary). I have to fix missing
>numeric values (if the column allows nulls why can't the copy
>command accept an empty field, I wonder?)
Have you tried "copy <tbl> from stdin with null as '';" or am I missing
something?
See
http://techdocs.postgresql.org/techdocs/usingcopy.php
or the postgresql documentation for more info.
Cheers,
Murthy
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