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Loading structured non-SQLified data into PostgreSQL from <stdin>

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gistfile1.sh

	$sql = "copy myTable ( …lots fields …) from STDIN with null as '' delimiter '\t'"

	zcat mydata.txt.gz \| psql -U myUser myDB -c "$sql"

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bpanulla commented Feb 18, 2012

Here's a method to do it in MySQL using a named pipe intermediary:
http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?20,94309,151288#msg-151288

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