On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 5:08 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 1 Nov 2018, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I'll use gawk to extract the relevant fields from the text file in which
> they reside (in the correct order), then use emacs keyboard macros to add
> the appropriate update text to each line. Must more efficient (and less
> tedious) than manually writing each line.
Actually a one-liner gawk script does the job.
I'm not sure what format your text file is in, but you could probably use \copy to bring it into a (temporary) table in Postgres. As long as it had your four new columns and the site_nbr, you could then update from that table in one swoop:
UPDATE stations
SET start_date=new_data.start_date,
end_date=...
FROM new_data
WHERE stations.site_nbr=new_data.site_nbr;
Cheers,
Ken
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