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 |
Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
Thread: | |
Lists: | pgsql-cygwin |
My guess is that the file is carriage-return/newline terminated. Change
it to newline-only. This is fixed in 7.4beta5.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
>
>
> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives?
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org
>
--
Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us
pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us | (610) 359-1001
+ If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road
+ Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073
From | Date | Subject | |
---|---|---|---|
Next Message | Nupur Pande | 2003-10-30 19:53:47 | Re: COPY error |
Previous Message | Nupur Pande | 2003-10-30 16:37:59 | COPY error |