| From: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | David Gauthier <dfgpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| Subject: | Re: running \copy through perl dbi ? |
| Date: | 2023-12-08 15:56:47 |
| Message-ID: | CAKFQuwY6BfaE7MtDfZA41SOKmKHLMw-ZXU=YbZ=HLqyE-8uCaw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 8:45 AM David Gauthier <dfgpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to run a PG client side "\copy" command from a perl script. I
> tried using $dbh->do("\\copy ...") but it barffed when it saw the '\'...
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "\"
>
More accurately it is the psql application's meta-command. There is no
such thing as a generic client side command.
>
> I can do this with a command line approach, attaching to the DB then run
> using...
> -c "\copy ...". But I was wondering if there is a more elegant way to do
> this, maybe some sort of legal SQL command that Perl/DBI would swallow ???
>
>
The SQL command is just "COPY". Search for how your driver exposes working
with that command/protocol.
David J.
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