Re: Load Data with COPY

Successfully loaded two files into two different tables. Happy. :-)

Diana

> Yes, it is a header in the .csv file. I did not know that there is such an
> option as specifying WITH HEADER in COPY.
> I should have tried to delete the header and specify the loading columns
> in the COPY itself.
>
> Thank you, Adrian, Ray, and John.
>
> Diana
>
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>> On 03/24/2015 02:16 PM, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
>>> On 24/03/2015 21:00, dpopova(at)uvic(dot)ca wrote:
>>>> I have 7,000+ rows of data in Numbers. Exported to .csv file, tried to
> load into postgres table with COPY FROM, failed. Postgres does not
> recognize the format:
>>>> ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "project_name,...
>>>> Is there any way to export/convert the data in Numbers into a format
> recognizable by postgres?
>>>> Mac OS 10.10.6; postgres 9.3.5.2
>>> Well, the error says that you're trying to load a string,
>>> "project_name", into an integer column.
>>> Is there a header row in the CSV file? - if so, delete it and try
> again.
>> If it is not a header row issue then it could be the columns in the CSV
> file do not match the columns in the table and that data is not matching
> what the table column expects. You can specify a column list in the
> COPY.
>>> Ray.
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