From an existing .SQL file

If you want to upload data from an existing .sql file, you can do this on the command line.

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Be aware! The commands in a .sql file can delete & change any data in an existing repo!

YOU CAN DELETE ALL THE DATA IN YOUR REPO WITH THE COMMANDS IN A .SQL FILE.

Install the Postgres tools

You'll need to be comfortable with using the command line. Our focus here is on OS X and Linux, but the same commands are available for Windows (but require slightly different commands).

First, install the Postgres command line tools.

On OS X or Windows, the easiest to use the Postgres 14.1 installer from EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads

Install Postgres, and make sure you include the command line tools.

On Linux, install postgres via your package manager; on Ubuntu-based systems you can do this with sudo apt-get install postgresql-client-12 which will install the client you need (the version 12 client is fine; the version 13 or 14 client will work as well).

Using psql To Upload Data To bit.io

Start a command prompt.

Change to the directory where your .sql file is.

Go to bit.io and copy you password - click on the green connect button, and you'll see your password. Click on your password and it'll be copied to your clipboard.

Then, you are going to run the psql command.
psql -U <your username> -h db.bit.io -d <your database name> -f <your sql file name>

Replace <your username> with your bit.io username, and replace <your sql file name> with the name of your sql file. Replace <your database name> with your fully database name, e.g. adam/test.

Here's an example for the user adam with the file test.sql:

Adams-Mac-mini:~ adam$ psql -U adam -h db.bit.io -d bitdotio -f test.sql
Password for user adam:
INSERT 0 1
Adams-Mac-mini:~ adam$ cat test.sql
INSERT INTO "adam/test_sql_file_input"."test" (test_column) VALUES ('Hello, world!')

And look, it's in the repo:

Your psql command will run for as many commands are in the file.