date_combined | timestamp without time zone | origin | integer | action | text | if_name | text | if_dir | text | src | inet | dst | inet | proto | text | rule | integer | service | integer | s_port | integer | icmp | text | icmp_type | text | primary_key | bigint | not null default nextval('logs_primary_key_seq'::regclass) When I try the following code: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use DBI; my $dbname = 'logs'; my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$dbname"); if (!$dbh) { die "Err Couldn't open connection: ".$DBI::errstr."\n"; } my $insert_query = "INSERT INTO logs (origin, action, if_name, if_dir, src, dst, proto, rule, service,s_port, icmp_type, icmp_code) values (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)"; $datematch = qr/(\d{1,2})([a-z]{3})(\d{4})/io; %months = ( Jan => "January", Feb => "February", Mar => "March", Apr => "April", May => "May", Jun => "June", Jul => "July", Aug => "August", Sep => "September", Oct => "October", Nov => "November", Dec => "December" ); while (<>) { my @fields = split (/\|/); $i++; # remove the leading space padding and reformat the date field $fields[1] =~ s/^\ //; $fields[1] =~ s/$datematch/$months{$2}\ $1\,$3/; my $date = "$fields[1] $fields[2]"; my $date = "$fields[1] $fields[2]"; foreach $field (3, 11, 12) { if ($fields[$field] eq "") { $fields[$field] = "0.0.0.0"; } } for ($i = 1; $i < $#fields; $i++) { $fields[$i] =~ s/\'//g; } my $numrows = $dbh->do($insert_query,$date,$fields[3],$fields[5],$fields[7],$fields[8],$fields[11],$fields[12],$fields[13],$fields[14],$fields[15],$fields[16],$fields[17],$fields[18]); if (!$numrows) { die "Failed to insert entry number $i:".$dbh->errstr."\n"; } @fields=""; } _DATA 2|9Oct2007|23:59:00|1.13.229.61|log|accept||eth-s1/s2p1c0|inbound|VPN-1 & FireWall-1||1.19.14.22|10.21.21.8|tcp|21|80|1326|||||||||||||||||||||