[postgis-users] loading many similar shapefiles

[Paul Ramsey]

Just use a temp table and interleave the load steps with psql -c
"insert into realtable select a,b,c from tmptable"

P

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:27 PM, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have many shapefiles that are conceptually identical in structure,
> except a couple of columns in each file are named differently. These
> columns are unimportant.
>
> How can I load all these files in the same table without the offending columns?
>
> # generate the create table and insert commands
> shp2pgsql -s 4269 -c file1 table > load.sql
>
> # generate the insert commands for subsequent files
> shp2pgsql -s 4269 -a file2 table >> load.sql
> shp2pgsql -s 4269 -a file3 table >> load.sql
> ..
>
> The above commands generate INSERT statements like so --
>
> INSERT INTO "table" (
>  "area",
>  "perimeter",
>  "file1_",
>  "file1_i",
>   the_geom
> ) VALUES (
>  '2.29080994500086E-04',
>  '6.34477469815224E-02',
>  '0106000020AD100000010000000103000020AD100000010000000D000000A4552DE928EA55C0C6F99B5088443E404582A966D6E955C050C8CEDBD8443E40187D0569C6E955C02B508BC1C3443E403DEFC682C2E955C0BB4560AC6F443E40EB8D5A61FAE955C0A6D24F38BB413E402907B30930EA55C0503750E09D403E40C28A53AD85EA55C0A8716F7EC3403E403D997FF44DEB55C058FFE7305F423E402C4833164DEB55C00F4240BE84423E40DAAD65321CEB55C0AFCF9CF529433E40D48041D2A7EA55C046274BADF7433E40FB58C16F43EA55C045F295404A443E40A4552DE928EA55C0C6F99B5088443E40'
> );
>
>
> I don't want file1_ and file1_i and their corresponding values. Is
> there a way to specify which columns to load?
>
>
>
> --
> Puneet Kishor
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