On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 10:50:33AM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi, > > Writing a script to pull data from SQL server into a flat-file (or just > piped in directly to PG using Perl DBI) > > Just wondering if the copy command is able to do a replace if there are > existing data in the Db already. (This is usually in the case of updates > to specific rows and there be a timestamp indicating it has been changed > etc.) > > In MySQL, the mysqlimport util has the --replace function which will > replace the data if there is any event of a duplicate. > > Does PG support this?
No; you'll need to COPY into a temporary or staging table and then proceed from there. Alternatively, you could use http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgloader/. -- Decibel!, aka Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
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