How does one bulk insert data with Postgres into QuestDB? The following does not work
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS employees (employee_id INT, last_name STRING,first_name STRING);
INSERT INTO employees
(employee_id, last_name, first_name)
VALUES
(10, 'Anderson', 'Sarah'),(11, 'Johnson', 'Dale');
For inserting data in bulk, there are a few options. You can use CREATE AS SELECT to bulk insert from an existing table which is closest to your example:
CREATE TABLE employees
AS (SELECT employee_id, last_name, first_name FROM existing_table)
Or you can use prepared statements, there are full working examples in a few languages in the QuestDB Postgres documentation, here is a snippet from the Python example:
# insert 10 records
for x in range(10):
cursor.execute("""
INSERT INTO example_table
VALUES (%s, %s, %s);
""", (dt.datetime.utcnow(), "python example", x))
# commit records
connection.commit()
Or you can bulk import from CSV, i.e.:
curl -F [email protected] http://localhost:9000/imp
