Re: copy from problem

On Wednesday 22 December 2010 12:34:58 pm Mark Watson wrote:
> Hello all,
> (Postgres 8.4.6 Windows)
> I am stumped as to why I cannot import this using copy from within pgadmin
> (the following table is created in an existing database with an encoding of
> WIN1252 and the Postgres server_encoding is UTF8) :
> CREATE TABLE test
> (
> col_descr text
> )
> WITH (
> OIDS=FALSE
> );
> ALTER TABLE test OWNER TO postgres;
> set client_encoding = 'WIN1252';
> COPY test FROM 'C:\\pgtemp\\test.txt' with delimiter as '|' csv;
> select * from test;
> --- col_descr
> -- ----------------
> -- (empty row)
>
> The file test.txt contains 1 line of 2 characters: éÉ (acute accented
> lowercase and uppercase e, hex(E9C9), valid win1252 characters.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Mark

Is there anything in the database logs? Are the two characters separated by '|'?

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