Re: Assistance with importing a csv into a PostgreSQL database

Intengu Technologies wrote:
> Please assist me with how to import a csv file into PostgreSQL that
> has the following structure - http://pastebin.com/m56bb6cb2.
>
> The challenges are these:
> 1. import the whole csv into one table - problem is the number of
> fields will not be the same for the various rows, the csv has no field
> names
> 2. split this one table into the various tables - a total of 6 tables
> 3. update the field names with the correct names
>
>

create table intengu1 (...)
create table intengu2 (...)
create table intengu3 (...)
create table intengu4 (...)
create table intengu5 (...)
create table intengu6 (...)

grep ^.1. /tmp/intengu.txt | psql -c "copy intengu1 from STDIN CSV;"
grep ^.2. /tmp/intengu.txt | psql -c "copy intengu2 from STDIN CSV;"
grep ^.3. /tmp/intengu.txt | psql -c "copy intengu3 from STDIN CSV;"
grep ^.4. /tmp/intengu.txt | psql -c "copy intengu4 from STDIN CSV;"
grep ^.5. /tmp/intengu.txt | psql -c "copy intengu5 from STDIN CSV;"
grep ^.6. /tmp/intengu.txt | psql -c "copy intengu6 from STDIN CSV;"