Re: Copying data from a tab delimited file into a table

FYI, I was able to do this with the COPY command which takes a field list as arguments. I don't know if the "\copy" command does or not, but I was able to use COPY and it worked.

On Feb 11, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Carol Walter wrote:

> I'm trying to copy the data from a tab delimited file into a postgres table. The table has a primary key that's designated as a serial data type. When I try to do the copy, it "blows up" unless I put a integer number in the field where the primary key will be. That defeats the purpose of designating this field as serial. When I put data into that field the copy works but an insert statement fails because it says there is a duplicate key. How can I get the data from this file into my table and still have the key field designated with a "serial data type"?
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> Thanks,
> Carol
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