Re: load fom csv

On Mon, 16 Sept 2024 at 17:36, Andy Hartman <hartman60home(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I'm trying to run this piece of code from Powershell and it just sits
> there and never comes back. There are only 131 records in the csv.
> $connectionString =
> "Host=$pgServer;Database=$pgDatabase;Username=$pgUser;Password=$pgPassword"
> $copyCommand = "\COPY $pgTable FROM '$csvPath' DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER;"
> psql -h $pgServer -d $pgDatabase -U $pgUser -c $copyCommand
> how can I debug this?
>

I would start by adding -a and -e after "psql".

IIRC Powershell is windows, and in windows shell do not pass command words
preparsed as in *ix to the executable, but a single command line with the
executable must parse. Given the amount of quoting, -a and -e will let you
see the commands are properly sent, and if it is trying to read something
what it is.

I will also try to substitute the -c with a pipe. If it heals, it is
probably a quoting issue.

Also, I just caught Ron's message, and psql might be waiting for a password.

Francisco Olarte.