On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 08:36:50PM +0200, Pierre-Fr?d?ric Caillaud wrote:
You can have your script make a query in the database to fetch the
data types of the fields and then know which ones are to be transformed
and how. The script would take as arguments a dump file and a
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 03:37:14PM -0400, David Rysdam wrote:
Michael Fuhr wrote:
I'd probably choose to extend PostgreSQL rather than hack what
already exists, though.
By extend PostgreSQL do you mean create a custom input_function for
timestamp? Are there docs that give hints for
I have a large amount of data that I copy in and out of Sybase very
often. Now I also want to copy this data in and out of postgres. I
have an existing script that creates the entire database(s) from scratch
in Sybase and then uses the Sybase bulk copy tool bcp to copy the data
in.
I
David Rysdam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In my brute force port, I just bulk copied the date
fields into temporary tables and then did a to_timestamp(field, 'Mon DD
HH:MI:SS:MSAM').
Again, I created a temporary table and did a decode(field, 'hex') to the
real table.
This is the
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:06:58AM -0400, David Rysdam wrote:
Sybase bulk copies the date fields out in this format:
Mar 4 1973 10:28:00:000AM
Postgresql's COPY (or psql \copy) doesn't like that format.
You could filter the data through a script that reformats certain
fields, then feed
Michael Fuhr wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:06:58AM -0400, David Rysdam wrote:
Sybase bulk copies the date fields out in this format:
Mar 4 1973 10:28:00:000AM
Postgresql's COPY (or psql \copy) doesn't like that format.
You could filter the data through a script that reformats certain
Greg Stark wrote:
David Rysdam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In my brute force port, I just bulk copied the date
fields into temporary tables and then did a to_timestamp(field, 'Mon DD
HH:MI:SS:MSAM').
Again, I created a temporary table and did a decode(field, 'hex') to the
real
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 01:32:01PM -0400, David Rysdam wrote:
Michael Fuhr wrote:
You could filter the data through a script that reformats certain
fields, then feed the reformatted data to PostgreSQL. This is
usually a trivial task for Perl, awk, sed, or the like.
Right, I *can* do this.
Right, I *can* do this. But then I have to build knowledge into that
script so it can find each of these date fields (there's like 20 of them
across 10 different files) and then update that knowledge each time it
changes.
In your case that's a reasonable argument against filtering the
data with
Michael Fuhr wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 01:32:01PM -0400, David Rysdam wrote:
Michael Fuhr wrote:
You could filter the data through a script that reformats certain
fields, then feed the reformatted data to PostgreSQL. This is
usually a trivial task for Perl, awk, sed, or the like.
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