Re: ECPG and COPY FROM STDIN

[Sean Davis <sdavis2(at)mail(dot)nih(dot)gov>]

Niels Laakmann wrote:
> Am heiligen Mo, 20 November 2006 06:42:23 -0500
> schrieb Sean Davis <sdavis2(at)mail(dot)nih(dot)gov>:
>
>   
> > On Monday 20 November 2006 06:12, Niels Laakmann wrote:
> >     
> > > Hey List!
> > > I have to do a Benchmark-Test in C (ECPG) with and without network.
> > > After reading the Performance and COPY Documentation (not correctly), I
> > > wanted to Copy a File over the Network by using "COPY FROM 'filename'".
> > > After some curious Problems I knew why.
> > > Now I read some about "COPY FROM STDIN. But I didn't find an Example.
> > > Can someone please give me an Example for that ?
> > >
> > > Or:
> > >
> > > Is there another command to insert many tuples from a Client to a
> > > Server in an adequate time ?
> > >       
> > How about here:
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/libpq-copy.html
> >     
>
> At first thanks for this Tipp. I rewrite my Code to use Libpq now. But
> the next Problem comes up:
>
> <snap>
> char textbuffer[120];
>
> result = PQexec(connect, "COPY branches (branchid, branchname, balance,
>    address) FROM STDIN WITH DELIMITER ',';");
>
> if(PQresultStatus(result) != PGRES_COPY_IN)
>    shutdown_conn(1, connect);		//my own error-handling
>                                         //function
>
> for(n=0; n < count_tupel; n++) {
>    sprintf(textbuffer, "%d,text1,0,text2", n);
>    if(PQputCopyData(connect, textbuffer, strlen(textbuffer) + 1) != 1)
>       shutdown_conn(1, connect); 
> }
>    PQputCopyEnd(connect, NULL);
>    PQgetResult(connect);
> </snap>
>
> If count_tupel is 1, one Tupel is inserted to the relation. If
> count_tupel is greater than 1. No Tupel is inserted and I got the
> Error-Message: "extra data after last expected column".
> What are we doing wrong ? - Is there something wrong as I discard the
> buffer ? - A Null-Termination etc. ?
>   
You need to have each line end in "\n"; the line needs to be a line, 
just like you would print to the screen.

Sean