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Bug#453434: ITP: pgloader -- loads flat data files into PostgreSQL



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Hi Dimitri,

Dimitri Fontaine schrieb:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Dimitri Fontaine <dim@tapoueh.org>
> 
> 
> * Package name    : pgloader
>   Version         : x.y.z

For which values of x, y, and z?
You should specify the version here.

>   Upstream Author : Name <somebody@example.org>

You should provide real data about the upstream author here.

> * URL             : http://www.example.org/

You should provide a real URL here, i.e. the URL where you downloaded
pgloader from.

> * License         : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)

Under which license is pgloader published?

>   Programming Lang: (C, C++, C#, Perl, Python, etc.)

Please investigate the languages really used and provide the information
here.

>   Description     : loads flat data files into PostgreSQL
> 
>  pgloader imports data from a flat file and insert it into a database
>  table. It uses a flat file per database table, and you can configure as
>  many Sections as you want, each one associating a table name and a data
>  file.
>  .
>  Data are parsed and rewritten, then given to PostgreSQL COPY command.
>  Parsing is necessary for dealing with end of lines and eventual trailing
>  separator characters, and for column reordering: your flat data file may
>  not have the same column order as the databse table has.

IMHO you can ommit the second paragraph. It explains implementation
details which in this case aren't important for the question whether a
administrator/user wants to install this package or not.

Regards
  Micha
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