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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...

PostgreSQL includes a command named COPY that provides the basic data load/unload mechanism. The COPY command doesn't do enough when loading data, so let's skip the basic command and go straight to pgloader.

To load data, we need to understand our requirements, so let's break this down into a step-by-step process, as follows:

  1. Identify the data files and where they are located. Make sure that pgloader is installed at the location of the files.
  2. Identify the table into which you are loading, ensure that you have the permissions to load, and check the available space.Work out the file type (examples include fixed-size fields, delimited text, and CSV) and check the encoding.
  1. Specify the mapping between columns in the file and ...
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