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Re: Question on populating tables . . .

Bryan White <bryan@arcamax.com>

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From: "Bryan White" <bryan@arcamax.com>
To: "Peter E. Chen" <pchen3@jhmi.edu>, "Postgres \(General\)" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-01-02T21:08:20Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
> Is there a way to populate a table using a tab-delimited file?  This
feature
> is available in MySQL and I'd like to know if it is possible with
> postgreSQL.

Yes, see the COPY command.  This is also the format used by pg_dump.