Re: bulk insert using COPY and PHP code

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Babu R <babu_4blog(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
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> Hi Pavel,
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> Thanks.
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> The situation is, I have the DB class which will return the connection object that is created using the PDO class. And am using that object to perform the db operations. ie: $DB->prepare("")
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> Further I have the data in a CSV file which has to be inserted into the table.
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> Here is the command that I have used to import that data:
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> $DB->exec("\COPY table1 FROM data.csv WITH DELIMITERS ','");

As mentioned earlier just use copy, also look into using copy from
stdin and then just feeding the lines to pgsql through php instead of
having pgsql get it from a system file. This way the php script and
the db don't have to be on the same machine.