On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 9:01 AM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/8/23 07:45, David Gauthier wrote:
> Hi:
>
> 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 "\"
>
> 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 ???
Per David Johnston post:
https://metacpan.org/pod/DBD::Pg#COPY-support
Right. Since the copy api isn't really a standard thing in the SQL world you cannot usually use generic database APIs, you need to use driver-specific interfaces.
David J.
