Re: Numeric and CSV under 8.0.1 ?

Stef:
Why is iuserid numeric? Are you going to do any math on the field?
If not, change it to varchar. In the long run you'll be happier.

Stef wrote:

>Hello Everyone,
> Currently, here at work, I am doing the whole
>'advocacy' part of postgreSQL. It's not really hard to
>do, as the other database's are MySQL and Sybase ;)
>
> There is obviously a whole spat of data munging
>going on in the background, and I noticed that psql in
>8.0.1 now accepts CSV ! Great.
>
> Except, it doesn't really appear to be 100% there.
>Numeric's wrapped in '...' don't want to appear to go in.
>Is this a 'known problem' ?
>
> Table "public.visitor_main"
> Column | Type | Modifiers
>------------------+----------------------+------------------------------
> iuserid | numeric(12,0) | not null
> firstname | character(25) | not null
> lastname | character(25) | not null
>
>
>Sample Data line
>'3236','Alonzo','Peter'
>
>ERROR: invalid input syntax for type numeric: "'3236'"
>CONTEXT: COPY visitor_main, line 1, column iuserid: "'3236'"
>
>
> Thoughts ?
> Regards
> Steph
>
>