Re: [GENERAL] Piping CSV data to psql when executing COPY .. FROM STDIN (Solved)

2008-10-30 Thread Roberts, Jon
> I am however unable to do the same successfully (the Java code simply > hangs, probably as a result of the second psql not getting the input to > it) from Java code using objects of ProcessBuilder and Process. I have > used threads consume the STDOUT and STDERR streams (I write the STDOUT > strea

Re: [GENERAL] Piping CSV data to psql when executing COPY .. FROM STDIN (Solved)

2008-10-29 Thread Sam Mason
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:11:43PM +0200, Allan Kamau wrote: > I am however unable to do the same successfully (the Java code simply > hangs, probably as a result of the second psql not getting the input to > it) from Java code using objects of ProcessBuilder and Process. Why don't you use the J

Re: [GENERAL] Piping CSV data to psql when executing COPY .. FROM STDIN (Solved)

2008-10-29 Thread Allan Kamau
Thanks Reid, Sam and others. Indeed the oversight was once again at my end. As rightfully pointed out I was using tab as a delimiter where the copy command "COPY abc FROM STDIN WITH CSV HEADER" expects a comma character and will ignore the first line. It does work appropriately when I pipe the

Re: [GENERAL] Piping CSV data to psql when executing COPY .. FROM STDIN

2008-10-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Allan Kamau wrote: Reid Thompson wrote: Allan Kamau wrote: Sam, I have been unable to understand your shell script well enough to use it. Seems am slow this afternoon :-) On this list I saw a message detailing using copy as illustrated below (see )when I run this command I get the following

Re: [GENERAL] Piping CSV data to psql when executing COPY .. FROM STDIN

2008-10-28 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 03:11:05PM +0200, Allan Kamau wrote: > Sam, I have been unable to understand your shell script well enough to > use it. Seems am slow this afternoon :-) Don't worry, I've just spent an hour going through three computers trying to figure out why they didn't work. In the en

Re: [GENERAL] Piping CSV data to psql when executing COPY .. FROM STDIN

2008-10-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Allan Kamau wrote: Sam, I have been unable to understand your shell script well enough to use it. Seems am slow this afternoon :-) On this list I saw a message detailing using copy as illustrated below (see )when I run this command I get the following output (see ) COPY abc FROM STDIN WIT

Re: [GENERAL] Piping CSV data to psql when executing COPY .. FROM STDIN

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Kamau
Reid Thompson wrote: Allan Kamau wrote: Sam, I have been unable to understand your shell script well enough to use it. Seems am slow this afternoon :-) On this list I saw a message detailing using copy as illustrated below (see )when I run this command I get the following output (see ) C

Re: [GENERAL] Piping CSV data to psql when executing COPY .. FROM STDIN

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Kamau
Sam, I have been unable to understand your shell script well enough to use it. Seems am slow this afternoon :-) On this list I saw a message detailing using copy as illustrated below (see )when I run this command I get the following output (see ) COPY abc FROM STDIN WITH CSV HEADER; \. 1

Re: [GENERAL] Piping CSV data to psql when executing COPY .. FROM STDIN

2008-10-28 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 01:25:00PM +0200, Allan Kamau wrote: > The alternative I am attempting is to use "COPY abc FROM STDIN WITH > HEADER". I pipe the contents of the CSV file on my PC to the psql > command (that connects to the remote PC) while issuing this copy command. > This does seems not

[GENERAL] Piping CSV data to psql when executing COPY .. FROM STDIN

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Kamau
Hi all, I am trying to copy data (results of a SELECT * FROM abc WHERE ...) to a remote PC (on my network). If I execute the "COPY abc2 FROM abc.txt CSV WITH HEADER" on psql connected to the remote PC, PostgreSQL will expect the file to be resident on the (remote) server's file system (or atl