2010/7/2 Babu R <babu_4blog@xxxxxxxxx> > > Hi Pavel, > > Thanks. > > 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("") > > Further I have the data in a CSV file which has to be inserted into the table. > > Here is the command that I have used to import that data: > > $DB->exec("\COPY table1 FROM data.csv WITH DELIMITERS ','"); you cannot use \copy - this command is available only in psql. use just copy ... pavel > > And this dosen't work, it throws an error "error near "\" char 1 along with the command > > But the same command works fine on the psql prompt. > > Thanks again, > - Babu > > --- On Fri, 7/2/10, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: bulk insert using COPY and PHP code > To: "Babu R" <babu_4blog@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Friday, July 2, 2010, 4:22 PM > > 2010/7/2 Babu R <babu_4blog@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > Hello, > > > > Am exploring a way for bulk insert using \COPY with the CSV format data using PHP code. Is there any way to achieve this? > > > > Thanks, > > - Babu > > > hello > > look on http://php.net/manual/en/function.pg-put-line.php > > > <?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); > ?> > > Regards > > Pavel Stehule > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general