> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adrian Klaver > > I guess the solution depends on what is a 'large amount of data'. The > most time consuming part is going to be converting the single data > elements at the top of each sheet into multiple elements. I would > create columns for the data in the sheet. At the same time I would > order the columns to match the database schema. Then it would a matter > of cut and paste to fill the columns with the data. The event id's > could be renumbered using Excel's series generator to create a non > repeating set of id's. If the amount of data was very large it might > pay to create some macros to do the work. Once the data was filled in > you would have a couple of choices. One, as mentioned by Ron would be > to use OpenOffice v2 to dump the data into the database. The other > would be to save the data as CSV and use the psql \copy command to > move the data into the table. > On Friday 07 July 2006 09:40 am, Parang Saraf wrote: Evrything You described is familiar to me, except the OpenOffice v2 dump - could You explain this more in details pls? I tried to do it many times, without success. Thank You Tomas [del] > -- > Adrian Klaver > aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx
