Re: Load Data with COPY

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2015-03-25 4:27 GMT+01:00 <dpopova(at)uvic(dot)ca>:

> 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
> >
> >
> >> 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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