Re: Multiple COPYs

From: Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
To: rasdj(at)frontiernet(dot)net
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Multiple COPYs
Date: 2005-06-17 14:30:09
Message-ID: m2wtotukcu.fsf@Douglas-McNaughts-Powerbook.local
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rasdj(at)frontiernet(dot)net writes:

> Hello,
>
> Having a great time with PG - ported an erp from oracle and db2. First
> I tried MySql but choked somewhere in the 900 table region. I have a
> python script to translate the syntax and it loads about 2000 tables.
>
> Now I want to COPY my dumps - I have 1 data dump for each table. Any
> tips on what to use so that I can read the file name into a variable
> and pass it as the file name in the COPY command and have one script
> load all my tables?

Should be pretty easy from the shell, something like (untested):

for f in *.sql; do
tablename=`basename $f .sql`
psql -c "\\copy $tablename from $f" mydatabase
done

-Doug

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