FW: How to upload data to postgres

So far I tried;

1) I have copied data from Ingres in ASCII (using Ingres copydb
command).
2) created a table in a Postgres database
3) tried loading data into Potgres table - encounter problems.

For 1) (the Ingres part)
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Ingres used the following copy commands:

copy site(
sta= varchar(0)tab,
ondate= varchar(0)tab,
offdate= varchar(0)tab,
lat= c0tab,
lon= c0tab,
elev= c0tab,
regist_code= varchar(0)tab,
vault_cond= varchar(0)tab,
geology= varchar(0)tab,
comment= varchar(0)tab,
initials= varchar(0)tab,
lddate= c0nl,
nl= d0nl)
into '/tmp/site.dba'

Normally Ingres will use this command to copy data from a file:
copy site(
sta= varchar(0)tab,
ondate= varchar(0)tab,
offdate= varchar(0)tab,
lat= c0tab,
lon= c0tab,
elev= c0tab,
regist_code= varchar(0)tab,
vault_cond= varchar(0)tab,
geology= varchar(0)tab,
comment= varchar(0)tab,
initials= varchar(0)tab,
lddate= c0nl,
nl= d0nl)
from '/vm04-0/home/postgres/test/site.dba'

For 3)
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- I got error when I tried to copy with Ingres-like copy command.
- Then I tried to copy with simple 'copy site from
'/vm04-0/home/postgres/test/site-c.dba' - ERROR: value too long for
type character varying(5)

- I had no luck either when used binary copying - postgres complained
about signature:
copy site from '/vm04-0/home/postgres/test/site.dba' with binary
:
ERROR: COPY file signature not recognized

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I have couple of questions as well.
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Q1: is there an equivalent of copydb in postgres (in Ingres copydb
creates copy statements for all database tables in a single file)
Q2: how to say in postgres that a field has no default values (in
Ingres 'not default' is used - and this produced an error in postgres
CREATE TABLE command)

Create table site (
sta varchar(5) not null,
ondate varchar(8) not null,
offdate varchar(8) not null,
lat float not null not default, ----->
lon float not null not default
)

Q3: How to specify storage structure of a table (again in Ingres
'modify' statement is used to specify btree, isam or hash structure). In
the Postgres documentation I only saw how to create an index with a
specific structure.

In Ingres: modify site to isam unique on sta, ondate (means structure
isam, primary key is on 2 fields - sta and ondate)

Thanks in advance,
Nina

> ______________________________________________
> From: Markova, Nina
> Sent: September 9, 2008 14:32
> To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: How to upload data to postgres
>
> Hi again,
>
> I need to load data from Ingres database to Postgres database. What's
> the easiest way?
>
> Thanks,
> Nina
>