Hello Monks,

I have very little experience with Perl, and I am also new to this forum. I would greatly appreciate any direct or indirect help with a problem I am currently facing.

My program has several arrays which I intend to push into a pgSQL database. Each array represents a unique table in the database. I have used flat files as a medium for transport in the past, however the scale of data in this project requires more efficiency. After some research I have settled on using the COPY method of moving the data into the db.

So far, I have been able to find very few example of code using the pg_putcopydata method and those I have found I either do not understand or do not use a data structure much like the one I am using (arrays).

Each element in the array @ArrayInMemory will be a row in the db table with multiple columns delimited by /. This is what I image the code will be like:

@ArrayInMemory

$dbh->do("COPY mytable(col1, col2, col3) FROM STDIN WITH DELIMITER '/'
+");

foreach $row (@ArrayInMemory)
    {
       $dbh->pg_putcopydata($row);
    }
$dbh->pg_putcopyend();

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Again, thanks for any input on this topic and I hope we can generate a few quality examples for other users who are unfamiliar with the pg_putcopydata database handle method.

In reply to DBD:Pg pg_putcopydata by LiquidT

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