On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:15:43AM -0500, Bruno Lavoie wrote: > Is there a way to easily import a relatively huge text file into a table > column? How big is "relatively huge"? > I'd like to use psql and I`'ve looked at lo_* commands and I > can't figure how to import my text file into my TEXT column. the "lo_*" commands are for working with large objects; these have somewhat unusual semantics compared to the normal data in columns in PG. If you're routinely expecting files of more than, say, one MB then they're probably a good way to go, but it's a lot more work getting them going in the first place. > My last > solution is to write a little script to load my text file in a var and > then insert to databse. If you want to just get the data into a TEXT column as quickly as possible; I'd probably just write a little bit of code to perform the escaping that PG requires on the file. You can then simply do: COPY tbl (col) FROM '/path/to/escaped/file'; I'm not sure if this is really what you want though! "Enormous" TEXT columns can be a bit fiddly to work. Sam -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
