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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

Here, we will show you an example where data in a spreadsheet is loaded into a database:

  1. If your spreadsheet data is neatly laid out in a single worksheet, as shown in the following screenshot, then you can go to File | Save As and then select CSV as the file type to be saved:
  1. This will export the current worksheet to a file, like the following:
"Key","Value" 1,"c" 2,"d"
  1. We can then load it into an existing PostgreSQL table, using the following psql command:
postgres=# \COPY sample FROM sample.csv CSV HEADERpostgres=# SELECT * FROM sample; key | value-----+-------   1 | c   2 | d
  1. Alternatively, from the command line, this ...
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ISBN: 9781788474924Supplemental Content