Re: COPY: row is too big

I am piggy-backing in this thread because I have the same issue as well. I
need to import a csv file that is 672 columns long and each column consists
of 12 alpha-numeric characters. Such as:

SA03ARE1015D SA03ARE1S15N SB03ARE1015D ...
356412 275812 43106 ...

I am aware this is not normalized, however, we (or try to) keep source data
intact, and normalize after importing into our system.

While trying to import all columns to type `text` I get this error:

[54000] ERROR: row is too big: size 8760, maximum size 8160
Where: COPY temp_table, line 3
SQL statement "copy temp_table from
'/home/edgleweb/data/raw/TX/TAPR/2015/ADV/SSTAAR1ADV.csv' with delimiter ','
quote '"' csv "

I tried varchar(12) also, nothing changed. My questions is 1) I have
672x12=8,064 characters in the first row (which are actually the headers),
why would it complain that it is 8760. I am assuming here type `text`
occupies 1 byte for a character. 2) Is there anything I can do to work
around this situation?

Thanks in advance.

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