Re:

You need to quote the strings I believe. Postgres is finding that comma at
the end of "avenue" and thinking that it's time to move on the next field
(column), but then it realizes that it hasn't reached the end of the array
and barfs.

I'm not 100% sure how to fix it - either quote the strings in the array, or
escape the comma after avenue with a \

~p

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Nabil
Sent: Thursday, 22 February 2007 04:42
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [NOVICE]

Hi everyone. I'm running postgresql 7.4 and I'm trying to import some data
from a CSV file using this command:

COPY vendor (vc, vname, address, city, state, zip, phone, rent_to_vc)

FROM '/home/nabil/vendordata.csv' DELIMITER ',';

but I get an error:

ERROR: malformed array literal: "{109 URBAN AVENUE"

SQL state: 22P02

Context: COPY vendor, line 2, column address: "{109 URBAN AVENUE"

the data line is:

AB00045,GOES KING,{109 URBAN AVENUE,},WESTBURY,NY,11590-4800,800-524-1556,1

and the code for the address column:

ALTER TABLE vendor ADD COLUMN address character varying(30)[];

ALTER TABLE vendor ALTER COLUMN address SET STORAGE EXTENDED;

ALTER TABLE vendor ALTER COLUMN address SET NOT NULL;

^ copied from the SQL pane in pgAdmin

I dont know why I'm getting this error... If I remove the comma at the end
of AVENUE the error goes away but I created the address column with a data
type of varchar(30)[2]. Does any one know what I'm doing wrong?

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