hi Michael, thanks for your references, the problem is that what I want is not to type anything in console (psql) but to construct an automatic insertion to Db (when the user uploads a "text" (.csv, .txt file) and send it to my server, then it runs "something" to insert into a table). Shortly, what I want is to let users see his point data (species occurences) in my web application; when session finishes, data should disappear. So, I should construct a script, maybe using COPY, but how to write such kind of scripts? some PDF, web references to learn it?
I was thinking to restrict the data to insert (X,Y and species, genus, family) and to have a pre-constructed table in PostGIS with these columns. I suppose it should minimize much more the work and time to insert data and should also make much easier the scripting. Thanks. Michael Fuhr wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:53:27AM -0700, pere roca wrote: >> I just was wondering if there is some tool to insert automatically data >> from a .asc or .csv or text file (just X,Y and thematic data) to PostGIS >> (something similar to shp2pgsql.exe). > > Are you familiar with COPY (or psql's \copy)? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/sql-copy.html > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/app-psql.html > >> What I want to do is that after a user inserts a file in our server, >> automatically this file is inserted in someway to PostGIS. How would you >> do >> it? > > How are files being sent to the server? Can you explain in more > detail how your system works and what you're trying to do? > > -- > Michael Fuhr > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/insert-interactively-asc-or-text-files-tf4022887.html#a11442333 Sent from the PostGIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list [email protected] http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
