pg_bulkload is a high speed data loading tool for PostgreSQL.

pg_bulkload is designed to load huge amount of data to a database. You can load data to table bypassing PostgreSQL shared buffers.

pg_bulkload also has some ETL features; input data validation and data transformation.

• master : branch for pg_bulkload 3.2dev
• VERSION3_1_STABLE : branch for pg_bulkload 3.1 which supports PostgreSQL 8.4 to 9.6.

pg_bulkload works with control file like below,

$ pg_bulkload sample_csv.ctl
NOTICE: BULK LOAD START
NOTICE: BULK LOAD END
	0 Rows skipped.
	8 Rows successfully loaded.
	0 Rows not loaded due to parse errors.
	0 Rows not loaded due to duplicate errors.
	0 Rows replaced with new rows.

See documentation about detail usage.

http://ossc-db.github.io/pg_bulkload/index.html

Change directory into top directory of pg_bulkload sorce codes and run the below commands.

 $ make
 # make install

Start PostgreSQL server and run the below command.

 $ make installcheck