Re: Problem with COPY in 8.0.3

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 09:09 +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Pg 8.0.3 (Debian package) on AMD64, linux 2.6.12
>
> I am importing a table using COPY. The data is tab-delimited. COPY
> seems to be putting the data for one field into the preceding field,
> which should contain the empty string.

To follow up on this, there seems to be a general problem that COPY did
not use the same column order as a default display for this particular
table. The table had just been created and had not been subjected to
alterations.

I got round the problem by specifying the column list to the COPY
command.

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