Re: Multiple Primary Keys

> Yes, it could be. Certain characters, such as \ and <tab> can cause
> COPY to misbehave. Can you post your full tabledef, plus a few lines
> of the COPY file?

psql dc postgres -c "create table "attachments"(
"docn" varchar(25) NOT NULL,
"issue" varchar(6) NOT NULL,
"docna" varchar(4) NOT NULL,
"issuea" varchar(20) NOT NULL,
"applic" varchar(3),
"whereused" varchar(1),
CONSTRAINT "attachments_pkey"
PRIMARY KEY ("docn","issue","docna","issuea"));"

docn issue docna
issuea

012T2100 SHT 01 K001 DR 911380
A001
012T2100 SHT 01 L001 012T2100 SHT 01 ADCN 267
-001
012T2100 SHT 01 L001 012T2100 SHT 01 ADCN 268
-001
012T2100 SHT 01 L001 012T2100 SHT 01 ADCN 270
-001
012T2100 SHT 01 L001 012T2100 SHT 01 ADCN 271
-001
012T2100 SHT 01 L001 012T2100 SHT 01 ADCN 272
-001

The duplicate error is on the third line of data ..
The headings are for your reference only, they aren't really in the file.
It's also a tab delimited file.

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com]
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:07 AM
To: samsom, debra; pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Multiple Primary Keys

Debra,

> It will be tough redesigning the database to use a surrogate key,
> cause it
> links to other tables using this key and I can't lose this
> relationship.

OK. Just keep it in mind for the next database ;-)

> I ran the select query (looking for duplicate data) and the result
> returned
> 0 rows. I have also run this copy using just a few records that I
> know are
> unique with the same result.
>
> Unfortunately these fields do contain spaces and funny characters,
> could
> this be the problem??

Yes, it could be. Certain characters, such as \ and <tab> can cause
COPY to misbehave. Can you post your full tabledef, plus a few lines
of the COPY file?

-Josh Berkus

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