pipe osmium-tools extracts into PostgreSQL

load_osm_history.py

import os
import psycopg2
import subprocess


def runogr2ogr(infile):
    # import the data
    try:
        command = ["ogr2ogr", "-f", "PostgreSQL",
                   OGR_CONN_STRING,
                   infile]
        print command
        subprocess.check_call(command)
    # record an error if there is one
    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
        print(str(e.output))


def runosmium(infile, outfile, month, year):
    month_run = month + 1
    if month_run == 13:
        month_run = 1
        year_run = year + 1
    else:
        year_run = year
    month_run = str(month_run).zfill(2)
    year_run = str(year_run).zfill(4)

    try:
        command = ["osmium", "time-filter", infile,
                   "{}-{}-01T00:00:00Z".format(year_run, month_run), "-o", outfile]
        print command
        subprocess.check_call(command)
    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
        print(str(e.output))


def checkTableExits(schema, table, connection):
    m_cur = connection.cursor()
    m_cur.execute(
        "select exists (select * from information_schema.tables where "
        "table_schema='{}' AND table_name='{}')".format(
            schema, table
        ))
    if m_cur.fetchone()[0]:
        ret = True
    else:
        ret = False
    m_cur.close()
    return ret


# Dates
START_YEAR = 2006
START_MONTH = 12
END_YEAR = 2018
END_MONTH = 4

ROOT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
INFILE = "ireland-and-northern-ireland.osh.pbf"


CONN_STRING = "dbname=%s user=%s password=%s host=%s port=%s" % (
              "postgis", "postgres", "postgres", "localhost", "5432")

OGR_CONN_STRING = "PG:host=localhost user=postgres password=postgres dbname=postgis port=5432"
conn = psycopg2.connect(CONN_STRING)

SCHEMA = "public"

for y in range(START_YEAR, END_YEAR + 1):
    if y == START_YEAR and END_YEAR > START_YEAR:
        t_end_month = 12
    elif y > START_YEAR and y < END_YEAR:
        t_end_month = 12
    else:
        t_end_month = END_MONTH
    if y > START_YEAR:
        t_start_month = 01
    else:
        t_start_month = START_MONTH
    for m in range(t_start_month, t_end_month + 1):

        print(y, m)

        file_name_pbf = str(y) + str(m).zfill(2) + '.pbf'
        out_file_pbf = os.path.join(ROOT_DIR, file_name_pbf)
        runosmium(INFILE, out_file_pbf, m, y)
        
        if checkTableExits(SCHEMA, 'lines', conn) is True:        
            runogr2ogr(out_file_pbf)
        else:
            runogr2ogr(out_file_pbf)
            cur = conn.cursor()
            cur.execute("ALTER TABLE public.lines ADD COLUMN load_date date")
            conn.commit()
            cur.execute("ALTER TABLE public.multilinestrings ADD COLUMN load_date date")
            conn.commit()
            cur.execute("ALTER TABLE public.multipolygons ADD COLUMN load_date date")
            conn.commit()
            cur.execute("ALTER TABLE public.other_relations ADD COLUMN load_date date")
            conn.commit()
            cur.execute("ALTER TABLE public.points ADD COLUMN load_date date")
            conn.commit()
            cur.close()

        cur = conn.cursor()
        cur.execute(
            "update public.lines set load_date = '{}-{}-01' where load_date is NULL;".format(
                str(y), str(m).zfill(2)))
        conn.commit()
        cur.execute(
            "update public.multilinestrings set load_date = '{}-{}-01' where load_date is NULL;".format(
                str(y), str(m).zfill(2)))
        conn.commit()
        cur.execute(
            "update public.multipolygons set load_date = '{}-{}-01' where load_date is NULL;".format(
                str(y), str(m).zfill(2)))
        conn.commit()
        cur.execute(
            "update public.other_relations set load_date = '{}-{}-01' where load_date is NULL;".format(
                str(y), str(m).zfill(2)))
        conn.commit()
        cur.execute(
            "update public.points set load_date = '{}-{}-01' where load_date is NULL;".format(
                str(y), str(m).zfill(2)))
        conn.commit()
        cur.close()
        os.remove(out_file_pbf)

Forked your script and modified the Alter table statement, the script was failing because load_date already existed in the tables. Thanks for writing this!