Re: copy 5.3000000000e+01 to bigint column error while Insert ok

On 10/28/2013 11:34 PM, Jov wrote:
> when use insert command,we can insert 5.3000000000e+01 to table,but
> when use copy command,we get this:
> ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "'5.3000000000e+01'"
> CONTEXT: COPY tdsort_metrics, line 1, column monitor_value:
> "'5.3000000000e+01'"
>
> any idea?

that number is clearly a floating point number. INSERT takes
expressions, and will cast the float to bigint, COPY doesn't and won't.

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