Re: bulk insert using COPY and PHP code

2010/7/2 Babu R <babu_4blog(at)yahoo(dot)com>
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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 ','");

you cannot use \copy - this command is available only in psql. use just copy ...

pavel

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> And this dosen't work, it throws an error "error near "\" char 1 along with the command
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> But the same command works fine on the psql prompt.
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> Thanks again,
> - Babu
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> --- On Fri, 7/2/10, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] bulk insert using COPY and PHP code
> To: "Babu R" <babu_4blog(at)yahoo(dot)com>
> Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Date: Friday, July 2, 2010, 4:22 PM
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> 2010/7/2 Babu R <babu_4blog(at)yahoo(dot)com>
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> > Hello,
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> > Am exploring a way for bulk insert using \COPY with the CSV format data using PHP code. Is there any way to achieve this?
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> > Thanks,
> > - Babu
> >
> hello
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> look on http://php.net/manual/en/function.pg-put-line.php
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> <?php
>   $conn = pg_pconnect("dbname=foo");
>   pg_query($conn, "create table bar (a int4, b char(16), d float8)");
>   pg_query($conn, "copy bar from stdin");
>   pg_put_line($conn, "3\thello world\t4.5\n");
>   pg_put_line($conn, "4\tgoodbye world\t7.11\n");
>   pg_put_line($conn, "\\.\n");
>   pg_end_copy($conn);
> ?>
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> Regards
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> Pavel Stehule
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