DO $$ declare _t text; begin ----------------------------------------------------build the column list of the temp table---------------------------------------------------------------- SELECT string_agg(quote_ident(prs.key)||' '||prs.type,',') INTO _t FROM TPS.srce --unwrap the schema definition array LEFT JOIN LATERAL jsonb_populate_recordset(null::tps.srce_defn_schema, defn->'schema') prs ON TRUE WHERE srce = 'DCARD' GROUP BY srce; ----------------------------------------------------add create table verbage in front of column list-------------------------------------------------------- _t := format('CREATE TEMP TABLE csv_i (%s)', _t); raise notice '%', _t; ----------------------------------------------------build the table----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DROP TABLE IF EXISTS csv_i; EXECUTE _t; COPY csv_i FROM 'C:\Users\fleet\downloads\dc.csv' WITH (HEADER TRUE,DELIMITER ',', FORMAT CSV, ENCODING 'SQL_ASCII',QUOTE '"'); end $$; SELECT * FROM csv_i; /* INSERT INTO tps.trans (srce, rec) SELECT 'DCARD', row_to_json(csv_i) FROM csv_i; */