octave-swig-database-1.0.4 - data entry into database table

[richard]

Hi all, 

Getting data from a table seems simple when compared with
output of data from octave into a table. As a first attempt 
something like this might work except postgres wants 
newlines and octave dislikes backslashes. 

> sql("copy rome001 (year, l_pay, legion_pay, legions, Army_pay) from stdin;  3 
> 4 5 6 7 \."); 

Has anyone used something similar to this successfully? 

TIA