If you would have liked to append to a table, make sure you have the table selected before you start this whole copy paste routine.

If you want to create a new table, give the table a name, preferably include the schema in the name.

A wizard comes up asking you if you want to create a new table or append to an existing table.

Then you paste it into your Open Base window (preferably in Table section) that is connected to your PostgreSQL database.

You click on the top left corner (or select the cells you want to copy).

You open up a delimited or spreadhseet file of some sort either in Excel or OpenOffice Calc.

How does this nifty copy and paste feature work?įor this little exercise, we downloaded the file Export-Import Bank Authorizations for FY 2010

Open Office has this fantastic feature called Copy and Paste (no kidding), and we will demonstrate in a bit, why their copy and paste is better than Microsoft Access's Copy and Paste particularly when you want to paste into some database other than a Microsoft one. Importing Data with Open Office Base Using copy and paste We don't want to fiddle with writing code to do these one off type exercises.įor other people, who are used to using GUIs or training people afraid of command lines, the use cases are painfully obvious, so we won't bore you. These files are usually small (under 5000 records) and the column names are never consistent. After all stumbling your way thru a commandline and typing stuff is much more fun and you can automate it after you are done.įor our needs, we get stupid excel or some other kind of tab delimeted dataįrom somebody, and we just want to cut and paste that data in our database. Use CaseĬommand line lovers are probably scratching there head, why you want to do this. In this excerpt, we'll demonstrate how to import data into PostgreSQL using Open Office Base, as we had promised to do inĭatabase Administration, Reporting, and Light Applicaton Development and some stumbling blocks to watch out for. The routine for doing the same in Open Office Base 3.2 is pretty much the same as it was in the 2.3 incarnation. A while ago we demonstrated how to use Open Office Base to connect to a PostgreSQL server using both the native PostgreSQL SBC and the PostgreSQL JDBC driver.

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