Re: Multi-row insert: error at terminal row.

On 10/29/20 9:59 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2020, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>
>> INSERT INTO products (product_no, name, price) VALUES
>>    (
>>    (1, 'Cheese', 9.99),
>>    (2, 'Bread', 1.99),
>>    (3, 'Milk', 2.99)
>> );
>>
>> then you should have gotten a different error. Something like:
>>
>> ERROR:  column "product_no" is of type integer but expression is of
>> type record
>
> Adrian,
>
> Tried that but the error was the same: the closing semi-colon.

It should not have been the same, so there is something else amiss.

>
>> I'm going to say the issue is more like what David posted, an escaping
>> problem in the data. Not sure how many rows you are dealing with, but it
>> might be helpful to break them down into smaller batches to isolate the
>> problem.
>
> Yep, that's what I'll do.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
>

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