Re: [GENERAL] COPY from CSV, passing in default value?

[François Beausoleil]

Le 2012-05-14 à 13:31, adebarros a écrit :

> However, what if I wanted to assign a default value during import to
> populate the County field? In my dreams it would be something like this
> (which does not work):
> 
> COPY salaries (Town, 'County Name', Supervisor, Salary)
> FROM 'C:\salaries.csv'
> WITH (FORMAT CSV);
> 
> Any ideas?

Import to a temp table, fill in the default value, then copy to the final 
table, something like this:

CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE salaries_import(LIKE (salaries) );
COPY salaries_import(town, supervisor, salary)
FROM '...',
WITH (format csv);
INSERT salaries(town, country, supervisor, salary)
 SELECT town, 'County Name', supervisor, salary
 FROM salaries_import;

Hope that helps!
François Beausoleil