I have a new database with five tables, and text files with data to populate
the tables using the insert command.
1. Each table has a sequential primary key. Should I manually add keys to
each insert row or will postgres generate it automatically? Example, for the
companies table:
org_id | integer | | not null |
nextval('companies_org_id_seq'::regclass)
org_name | character varying(64) | | not null |
2. Should I use sepatate files as input to each table or can I combine them
in a single file? For example, adding a company name and contact name for
someone in that company using input commands for both tables in a single
file? I will need to provide the primary key to the company table as the
foreign key in contact table and have not before pupulated multiple related
tables in a new database from .sql files.
TIA,
Rich
