<?xml version="1.0"?>
<oembed><version>1.0</version><provider_name>dbi Blog</provider_name><provider_url>https://www.dbi-services.com/blog</provider_url><title>External tables in PostgreSQL?</title><type>rich</type><width>600</width><height>338</height><html>&lt;blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="IjxCy4p9Sn"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/external-tables-in-postgresql/"&gt;External tables in PostgreSQL?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/external-tables-in-postgresql/embed/#?secret=IjxCy4p9Sn" width="600" height="338" title="&#x201C;External tables in PostgreSQL?&#x201D; &#x2014; dbi Blog" data-secret="IjxCy4p9Sn" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
/* &lt;![CDATA[ */
/*! This file is auto-generated */
!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&amp;&amp;d.addEventListener&amp;&amp;"undefined"!=typeof URL&amp;&amp;(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&amp;&amp;!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i&lt;o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i&lt;a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&amp;&amp;(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3&lt;(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r&lt;200&amp;&amp;(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&amp;&amp;(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&amp;&amp;n.host===r.host&amp;&amp;l.activeElement===s&amp;&amp;(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r&lt;s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document);
//# sourceURL=https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js
/* ]]&gt; */
&lt;/script&gt;
</html><description>In Oracle you can use the external table feature to load data from files into the database. The traditional way to do this in PostgreSQL is to use the copy command. But there is another option which makes use of foreign data wrappers. The foreign data wrapper for doing this is file_fdw. For creating some [&hellip;]</description></oembed>

<!--
Performance optimized by W3 Total Cache. Learn more: https://www.boldgrid.com/w3-total-cache/?utm_source=w3tc&utm_medium=footer_comment&utm_campaign=free_plugin

Page Caching using Disk: Enhanced (Requested URI contains query) 
Lazy Loading

Served from: www.dbi-services.com @ 2026-04-04 14:59:17 by W3 Total Cache
-->