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NAME

pgloader.pl - loads data to Postgres tables

SYNOPSIS

pgloader.pl  -siTV  person 
pgloader.pl  --help

DESCRIPTION

pgloader.pl loads tables to a Postgres database. It is similar to the pgloader(1) python program, written by other authors. Data are read from the file specified in the configuration file (defaults to pgloader.dat).

This version of pgloader exhibits the -i option which (when activated) drops all table indexes and recreates them again after COPY. In case of errors, everything rolls back to the initial state. This version also allows the libpq 'service' database connection method.

The configuration file and command options are almost identical to the python pythod pgloader(1) and is meant to be a drop-in replacement. Configuration entries are ignored for unimplemented features. The core functionality and many usefull features are already implemented; read further to find what is currently available.

OPTIONS

-q                         quiet  mode     (same as loglevel=1)
-v                         verbose mode    (same as loglevel=3)
-d                         debug  mode     (same as loglevel=4)
-l,  --loglevel            set loglevel 1 to 4  . Defaults to 2
-c,  --config              configuration file; defaults to "pgloader.conf"
-g,  --generate            generate a sample configuration file
-i,  --indexes             disable indexes during COPY
-n,  --dry_run             dry_run
-s,  --summary             show summary
-D,  --disable_triggers    disable triggers during loading
-T,  --truncate            truncate table before loading 
-V,  --vacuum              vacuum analyze table after loading
-C,  --count               number of lines to process 
     --version             show version and exit
-F,  --from                process from this line number

CONFIGURATION FILE

The configuration file (default is pgloader.conf), follows the ini configuration format, and is divided into these sections:

[pgslq]

This section is the only mandatory section, and defines how to access the database.

base           [required]  name of the database
host           [optional]  hostname to connect. Default is 'localhost'
port           [optional]  port number. Default is 5432
user           [optional]  name of login user. Default is epid of user
pass           [optional]  user password. Not needed if using libpq defaults.
pgsysconfdir   [optional]  dir for PGSYSCONFDIR
service        mandatory only when pgsysconfdir ( or the enviromental 
               variable PGSYSCONFDIR ) is defined .
[template1]

This section defines templates. In this case, the name was arbitrary chosen as template1. The purpose of templates is to hold default values for other table sections (defined bellow). You may define an unlimited number of template sections. The only mandatory entry for this section is 'template':

template   when defined, the template as enabled; leave it blank 
           to disable it.
[person]

This is the table section. The name person was arbitrary choosen, you can define an unlimited number of table sections. If the name of a table section appears on the command line (when invoking pgloader.pl) the corresponding table section defines how to load this table. Try to keep the name of the section the same as the name of the table. In a table section you can define the following parameters:

 table                [ MANDATORY ]  Tablename or schema.tablename . 
                      Defaults to section name.       

 filename             [ OPTIONAL ]  Filename with data for the table   
	              If missing, or set to 'STDIN', input data should
                      arrive from standard input.
                       
 use_template         [ OPTIONAL ]   Template to use for default values.

 field_sep            Delimiter that separates fields. The default for
                      text formats is TAB, and for csv formats is ',' 

 format               [ OPTIONAL ]   Must be either 'text' or 'csv' (without 
                      the quotes). Default is text.

 copy                 [ OPTIONAL ]   Names of columns found in data file. 
                      The names must match those in the database table.
                      Defauls to * . If you don't wish to list the names
                      in there proper order, you must append a number next
                      to their name; useful when the data file contains data
                      data in different order.
	              Example:  copy = age, last, first
                                copy = first:3, age:1, last:2

copy_columns [ OPTIONAL ] Names of columns to use for COPY. The char '*' means all columns specified with the "copy" parameter; carefull, it does not mean all columns defined for the database table, for it would not make sence, much or little. Default is '*', again, this means, same as "copy". For this parameter, names need not obey a particular order. Example: copy_columns = first, last, age copy_columns = *

 only_cols            [ OPTIONAL ]    Same purpose as "copy_columns", but here 
                      we use numbers (instead of names), to specify the 
                      columns. Numbers start from 1, ranges are also allowed. 
                      The char '*' means all columns, and is the default.
                      Example: only_cols = 1-2, 3, 5
			       only_cols = 3

 quotechar            [ OPTIONAL ]    Usefull only for csv formats. Default is "

 null                 [ OPTIONAL ]    String that indicates the  NULL value ; 
                      usefull only for text mode. Default is string '\NA'

skipinitialspace [ OPTIONAL ] Ignore leading and trailing whitespace

udc_COLUMNAME [ OPTIONAL ] Assign this value for all rows whose name is column COLUMNAME Examples: udc_title = Sir udc_age = 99 udc_race = white

reformat [ OPTIONAL ] reformat values of the age column by passing it to function upper(), in the John::Util module reformat = age:John::Util::upper

copy_every [ OPTIONAL ] How many tuples to copy per transaction. More transactions are automatically created to insert the rest of the date, each inserting upto that many tuples. Defaults is 10_000 TIP: set this parameter to 1 if you wish to avoid the case where one bad tuple cause other tuples to also fail. datestyle [ OPTIONAL ] Set datestyle parameter, omit all quotes. Example: datestyle=euro datestyle=us

client_encoding [ OPTIONAL ] Set client encoding, omit all quotes. lc_messages [ OPTIONAL ] Set lc messages parameter, omit all quotes. lc_numeric [ OPTIONAL ] Set lc numeric parameter, omit all quotes.

NOTE: Because of how the ini format is defined as a value separator, if you need to include the , char, you must escape it with \ . For example: field_sep = \, sets field_sep to char ','

SEE ALSO

http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgloader/ hosts the official python project. This project has nothing to do with this Perl program.

AUTHOR

Ioannis Tambouras, <ioannis@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2008 by Ioannis Tambouras

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.