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Having trouble creating geom columns and inserting geometry lat lng values into postgres table

  1. Is my syntax correct in creating the point geometry fields? st_makepoint is the point constructor. when I create the column should I be using that?
  2. or should I be using the st_makepoint when inserting into the column?

*python 2.7

conn = psycopg2.connect("connected")
cur.execute('''CREATE TABLE example(pgeom geometry(POINT, 4326),
         dgeom geometry(POINT, 4326));''')
for x in csvfile:
    extracting info...
    1geom = lng1+lat1 #int values
    2geom = lng2+lng2 #int values
    query = '''insert into example(geom1, geom2) values (%s,%s);'''
    data = (1geom, 2geom)
    cur.execute(query, data)
    conn.commit()
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    I think you should expand your code snippet to show where you set cur.
    – PolyGeo
    May 13, 2016 at 5:02
  • st_makepoint is the point constructor I believe
    – ziggy
    May 13, 2016 at 5:07

1 Answer 1

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Read your CSV file and create a vars_list list of tuples to insert. Reading the CSV file is off topic, but it should have a structure something like this:

vars_list = [
    (lng1, lat1, lng2, lat2),  # first record
    (lng1, lat1, lng2, lat2),  # second
    ...
]

Then insert them all at once with executemany, like this:

sql = '''\
INSERT INTO example(pickup_geom, dropoff_geom)
VALUES(ST_SetSRID(ST_MakePoint(%s, %s), 4326), ST_SetSRID(ST_MakePoint(%s, %s), 4326));
'''
curs.executemany(sql, vars_list)
conn.commit()

Or if you want to individually insert records:

for vars in vars_list:
    curs.execute(sql, vars)
    conn.commit()
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  • I have thousands of records, should I still use the executemany function?
    – ziggy
    May 13, 2016 at 5:28
  • I'd guess executemany is faster, although you could do a test to see.
    – Mike T
    May 13, 2016 at 6:15

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