Thank you everyone; some good programs to check out but I just went ahead and used "awk" to add two additional columns of data to the input file before sending it onto psql. David J. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/any-psql-copy-tricks-for-default-value-columns-without-source-data-tp5802795p5802914.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.