Re: Load multiple CSV file in Postgres using COPY

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 6:26 AM, Murtuza Zabuawala <
murtuza(dot)zabuawala(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to load multiple CSV files at once using single COPY
> command?
>
> I have scenario where I have to load multiple files,
>
> COPY prdxgdat FROM 'Z:/data-2016-04-01.csv' WITH DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER Y
> COPY prdxgdat FROM 'Z:/data-2016-04-02.csv' WITH DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER Y
> COPY prdxgdat FROM 'Z:/data-2016-04-03.csv' WITH DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER Y
> COPY prdxgdat FROM 'Z:/data-2016-04-04.csv' WITH DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER Y
> COPY prdxgdat FROM 'Z:/data-2016-04-05.csv' WITH DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER Y
> COPY prdxgdat FROM 'Z:/data-2016-04-06.csv' WITH DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER Y
> ..
> ..
> ..
> ..
> COPY prdxgdat FROM 'Z:/data-2016-04-50.csv' WITH DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER Y
>
> 50 files -> 50 COPY command, In my use case I think this is not a good way
> to load data, Can you suggest any better way to do this?
>
> I can always write external script (eg: shell script) but is there any
> other way to do this using single COPY command?
>
>
Perhaps something like "COPY FROM PROGRAM 'cat /path/*.csv'" would work for
you?

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