Re: Syntax error in a large COPY

Il Tuesday 06 November 2007 22:13:15 hai scritto:
> On 11/6/07, Reg Me Please <regmeplease(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Il Tuesday 06 November 2007 19:43:38 Scott Marlowe ha scritto:
> > > On 11/6/07, Reg Me Please <regmeplease(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > > > That seems not to be the case.
> > > > The last line has a \. by its own and the last but one is
> > > > well formed.
> > >
> > > (Please don't top post...)
> > >
> > > Got a self contained test case you can post?
> >
> > Back to the original topic ...
> >
> > I'm trying to understand what and where.
> > The point is that I have this 29M+ lines script telling me there's a
> > problem somewhere.
> >
> > A self contained test, at the moment, would be that long!
> >
> > I'm considering a "branch and bound" approach ... but it'd be quite long
> > and tedious as the program generating the script has not been written
> > to do such things.
>
> Split it in half, with the appropriate sql on each end so the data
> still works, and see which half causes a problem. Keep splitting the
> one that causes a problem in half until you have a small one with the
> problem still.
>
> I'm guessing the problem will become obvious then.

That's the "branch and bound". Editing 29M+ lines file takes some time.
But this is the way I'm going to go right now.

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Reg me Please