Re: COPY error

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Nupur Pande <npande(at)vt(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-cygwin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: COPY error
Date: 2003-10-30 18:26:51
Message-ID: 200310301826.h9UIQpN21237@candle.pha.pa.us
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My guess is that the file is carriage-return/newline terminated. Change
it to newline-only. This is fixed in 7.4beta5.

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Nupur Pande wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to copy data from an excel file into a postgres table. I saved
> the file in .txt format (tab delimited) from Excel (running on Windows XP
> machine) and then ran the d2u utility on the .txt file to convert it into
> unix format on cygwin. The command I executed was COPY [table_name] from
> [full path of file name].
> I get the following error message:
> ERROR: copy: line 1520, Extra data after last expected column
> ERROR: copy: line 1520, Extra data after last expected column
>
> Could someone please tell me what I did wrong? I checked the excel table and
> I can't see any extra information on that line.
>
> Thanks a lot..
> Nupur
>
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