Re: help with COPY from .csv file into database

From: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: michael(at)floog(dot)net
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: help with COPY from .csv file into database
Date: 2004-08-04 15:57:27
Message-ID: 1091635046.31602.2955.camel@linda
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On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 15:40, michael(at)floog(dot)net wrote:
> I have tried to COPY the contents of the .csv file into my database
> called TEST_DB, but I'm still doing something incorrectly. Currently,
> database TEST_DB has one table called "matters".
>
> In my attempts listed below, I specified the name of each column/field
> in my database and specified the delimiter used in the .csv file, but
> still no go:
>
> TEST_DB-# copy matters (client_1_lastname, client_1_firstname,
...
> date_close) from '/home/floog/TEST_DB.csv' DELIMITER ',';
>
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "client_1_lastname" at character 2
...
>
> What did I do incorrectly?

You had a previous line without a terminating semi-colon. Notice that
the prompt (TEST_DB-# rather than TEST_DB=#) indicates that this is a
continuation line.

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