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Re: Question on populating tables . . .

Jeffrey W. Baker <jwbaker@acm.org>

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From: "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>
To: "Peter E. Chen" <pchen3@jhmi.edu>
Cc: "Postgres (General)" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-01-02T21:16:12Z
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On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Peter E. Chen wrote:

> Hey All,
>
> 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, you can copy a table to or from a file.  See the documentation for
the COPY command.

-jwb