Re: Copy command and import - MS SQL Server to Postgres

From: Robert Fitzpatrick <robert(at)webtent(dot)com>
To: Allen Landsidel <alandsidel(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Goutam Paruchuri <gparuchuri(at)oneil(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Copy command and import - MS SQL Server to Postgres
Date: 2004-11-05 22:33:58
Message-ID: 1099694038.23041.6.camel@columbus.webtent.org
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On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 16:48, Allen Landsidel wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:31:21 -0500, Goutam Paruchuri
> <gparuchuri(at)oneil(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > Iam trying to import data from ms-sql server to postgres. I export the data
> > which has datetime columns in sql server using BCP. I use the following to
> > import back into postgres.
> >
> > copy tablename from 'c:\\bcpdata\\mcfa\\tablename.txt' with delimiter as
> > '\t'
> >
> > I get the following error !!
> > invalid input syntax for type timestamp: ""
> >
> > My input file has the timestamp value like
> >
> > 2004-09-30 11:31:00.000
> >

What about the ".000" on the end? I am not able to enter that format in
a timestamp field in 7.4.5, it is invalid.

--
Robert

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