Here's a link to a post made by Bill Faust. //www.freelists.org/archives/sql-ledger-users/01-2003/msg00300.html It includes a perl script for importing parts. Dieter also a Quickbooks import script on the SL web site (I made my own scripts based on the ideas in these. I can post those if you want to take a look) Cheers, Roy On May 15, 2003 03:43 pm, you wrote: > No, I don't think so. I presume the sequence should fill this out > automatically anyway. I haven't tested this though, when I imported my > data I decided to use a perl script that parsed the text file used > some regexp and did the inserts using DBI. > > > > > > I'm in the middle of this right now myself but haven't > > gone online to see if I have the sequence problem > > > > I'm using pgadminII to load a few thousand parts > > dumped from Informix - customers & vendors next > > > > my csv format is: > > > > part #, description, unit, cost , acct1, acct2, acct3 > > > > it looks like pgadmin will fill in any fields > > automatically - would I need to include the ID column > > in my csv? > > > > --- Alejandro Imass <ait@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hmmm. Your imput is quite valuable for our friend > > > but there is a small > > > mistake. > > > > > > If you take a look at the sequence it's just on for > > > all of SL. If you > > > look at the column definition you will see that is > > > auto. Include the > > > id column in the insert and leave the valur null and > > > it will be filled > > > for you automagically. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. > > http://search.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > -- > Alejandro Imass > > -- Roy W. Pennington Arch Distributors of Canada