Re: PGSQL 9.3.2 COPY command issues

spake wrote
> Here is my psql command:
> COPY data FROM '/Developer/data_20140608.csv' DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER;
>
> and here is the error I get:
> ERROR: invalid input syntax for type numeric: ""
> CONTEXT: COPY npi_data, line 2, column replacement_npi: ""

Numeric columns in CSV are not quoted. What you have here is a text field in
the file and a numeric field in the database. You must resolve the
mis-match. The easiest way is to define the table column as text. If you
ultimately need to convert the column into numeric then you should consider
the import table to be a staging table and after the copy is done you
migrate the copied in data to the production table while performing any data
transformations needed.

David J.

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