Re: CSV import

Hi

You will need two text utilities {dos2unix and sed} to do this in the simplest
way. They are fairly standard text utilities and are probably already on your
machine.

This is how I would do it :

sed "s/\"//g" file_name.txt \
| dos2unix \
| pgsql -c "COPY table_name FROM STDIN USING DELIMITERS ',';" db

Where "file_name.txt" is the csv file you want to import and "table_name" is
the previously created table you want to insert the data into and db is the
database name.

How this works is "sed" {stream editor} removes all the double quote
characters '"' then pipes the output through "dos2unix" which converts all the
CRLF {DOS EOL} sequences into CR {UNIX EOL} characters, then pipes the data to
"pgsql" with a command that does a bulk insert into the table of the database
you have selected.

Guy

Oliver Vecernik wrote:
> Hi again!
>
> After investigating a little bit further my CSV import couldn't work
> because of following reasons:
>
> 1. CSV files are delimited with CR/LF
> 2. text fields are surrounded by double quotes
>
> Is there a direct way to import such files into PostgreSQL?
>
> I would like to have something like MySQL provides:
>
> LOAD DATA [LOW_PRIORITY | CONCURRENT] [LOCAL] INFILE 'file_name.txt'
> [REPLACE | IGNORE]
> INTO TABLE tbl_name
> [FIELDS
> [TERMINATED BY '\t']
> [[OPTIONALLY] ENCLOSED BY '']
> [ESCAPED BY '\\' ]
> ]
> [LINES TERMINATED BY '\n']
> [IGNORE number LINES]
> [(col_name,...)]
>
> Has anybody written such a function already?
>
> Regards,
> Oliver
>