Let's say I have a table of keywords, with a SERIAL primary key.
CREATE TABLE keywords (
key_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
key_text TEXT
);
Now I would like to initialize this table with a COPY statement, but
without supplying values for the primary key. In other words, how can I
use COPY to perform the same function as
INSERT INTO keywords (keyword_text) VALUES ('foo');
INSERT INTO keywords (keyword_text) VALUES ('bar');
...
I have tried
COPY keywords FROM stdin USING DELIMITERS '|';
|foo
|bar
...
and also
0|foo
0|bar
and even
\N|foo
\N|bar
I even tried creating a view on keywords that has only keyword_text, and
copying into THAT--no luck. Then I wrote a rule to replace inserts on the
view with inserts on the table, but apparently COPY doesn't trigger INSERT
rules. Grumble...
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Jeff Boes vox 616.226.9550
Database Engineer fax 616.349.9076
Nexcerpt, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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