Re: Apparent Problem With NULL in Restoring pg_dump

On Thursday, September 15, 2011 1:17:06 pm Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Alban Hertroys wrote:
> > You appear to have two tabs after "Depth to Water", which would be one
> > too many.
>
> Alban,
>
> I thought that I had caught all the double tabs. Thanks for seeing this
> one.
>
> Now I'm back to the tabs-in-real-columns issue:
>
> ERROR: invalid input syntax for type real: " "
> CONTEXT: COPY chemistry, line 47364, column quant: " "
>
> and here's the referenced line:
>
> \N GW-22 2004-12-17 Calcium 9.69999981 mg/L
> \N \N \N \N
>
> Removing the extra tab between 'Calcium' and 9.69999981 produces:
>
> ERROR: invalid input syntax for type numeric: "N N"
> CONTEXT: COPY chemistry, line 47364, column northing: "N N"
>
> There must be a better way to clean this table, but I don't know what it
> is.

This is one of those things I find spreadsheets actually useful for. Do a COPY or
/copy, in CSV format from the table and import it into a spreadsheet. I find the
grid layout of a spreadsheet very useful in picking out misplaced fields.

>
> Thanks again,
>
> Rich

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