Re: COPY FROM - how to identify results?

I can't use triggers because I need a specific "my_id".
Here's the scenario: a user is browsing the web page for portfolio_id =
3, and wants to update the values. He uploads a CSV file, and I need its
entries to be tagged with portfolio_id = 3, as another user could be
uploading a CSV file for portfolio_id = 9.

As suggested by John Burger, I think the cleanest way to deal with this
is to have the CSV file COPY'd to a TEMP table, local to the user's
session, and from there inserted with INSERT INTO portfolio(field-1, ..
field-n, portfolio_id) SELECT field-1, .. field-n, 3 FROM ....;

Thank you,
Jaime

Klint Gore wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:45:54 -0400, Jaime Silvela <JSilvela(at)Bear(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to be able to do something like
>> COPY mytable (field-1, .. field-n, id = my_id) FROM file;
>>
>
> How do you get my_id? Can you get it in a trigger? Triggers still fire
> with copy so if you can get a trigger to fill in the id column you can
> copy with just the field names.
>
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