Re: Error Importing CSV File

Can you show the output of \d geo_data ?
Try 'using' delimiters
Are you doing this as the postgres superuser?
Because COPY can't load from files as a casual user, you need to pipe it to copy & read from stdin.

Simple script below works for me, modified copy statement might help?.

HTH,

Brent Wood

#! /bin/bash

DB=test

psql -d $DB -c "drop table geo_data;"
# latitude has only one 't'
psql -d $DB -c "create table geo_data
( zip_code text,
latitude float8,
longitude float8,
city text,
state text,
county text);"

echo "96799,-7.209975,-170.7716,PAGO PAGO,AS,AMERICAN SAMOA
96941,7.138297,151.503116,POHNPEI,FM,FEDERATED STATES OF MICRO
96942,7.138297,151.503116,CHUUK,FM,FEDERATED STATES OF MICRO" | \
psql -d $DB -c "copy geo_data from stdin using delimiters ',' null '';"

psql -d $DB -c "select * from geo_data;"

Output:

zip_code | latitude | longitude | city | state | county
----------+-----------+------------+-----------+-------+---------------------------
96799 | -7.209975 | -170.7716 | PAGO PAGO | AS | AMERICAN SAMOA
96941 | 7.138297 | 151.503116 | POHNPEI | FM | FEDERATED STATES OF MICRO
96942 | 7.138297 | 151.503116 | CHUUK | FM | FEDERATED STATES OF MICRO
(3 rows)

Brent Wood
DBA/GIS consultant
NIWA, Wellington
New Zealand
>>> Bryan Nelson 07/16/11 7:15 AM >>>
I am having problems importing a CSV file of sample data for testing
in a web app.

Columns & Types
-------------------
zip_code - text
lattitude - float8
longitude - float8
city - text
state - text
county - text

Some Sample Data From CSV File
------------------------------
96799,-7.209975,-170.7716,PAGO PAGO,AS,AMERICAN SAMOA
96941,7.138297,151.503116,POHNPEI,FM,FEDERATED STATES OF MICRO
96942,7.138297,151.503116,CHUUK,FM,FEDERATED STATES OF MICRO

COPY Command
------------
COPY geo_data FROM 'geo_data2.csv' DELIMITERS ',' CSV;

Error Message
-------------
ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "96799"
CONTEXT: COPY geo_data, line 1, column id: "96799"

I can't figure out why it keeps choking with "invalid syntax for
integer" since the field was created as "text".

Any and all help greatly appreciated!

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