Re: ERROR: extra data after last expected column

No luck

On Mon, Mar 7, 2022, 4:58 AM Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On 3/7/22 02:08, Sándor Daku wrote:
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> On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 at 09:34, Scott Macri <Scott(at)bitsnbytes(dot)io> wrote:
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>> I'm trying to use the postgres copy command and getting, "extra data
>> after last expected column".
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>> All items in the DB are currently set to varchar(255) to make it
>> simple. I've checked for hidden characters in the file and don't see
>> any. All the other files I've processed with this exact command worked
>> perfectly. I've processed 10 other's so far. The only difference I
>> notice is this one has significantly more columns.
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>> The number of columns in the DB (25) exactly match the number of
>> columns in the csv (25), which exactly match the number of columns
>> defined in my COPY command (25). I've read practically every post on
>> the internet over the last two days containg this error and cannot
>> resolve it. I am completely stumped at this point.
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>> It pukes after the 9th column every time no matter what I change.
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>> COPY option_details(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y)
>> FROM '/home/dump/my_csv.csv' WITH (FORMAT CSV, DELIMITER '|', ENCODING
>> 'UTF8');
>>
>> Row one data in file is below:
>> item a | item b | item c | item d | item e | item f | item g | item h |
>> item i | item j | item k | item l | item m | item n | item o | item p |
>> item q | item r | item s | item t | item u | item v | item w | item x |
>> item y
>> --- Line two would normally start here but no reason to show since it's
>> failing above. ---
>>
>> I get the following error:
>> ERROR: extra data after last expected column
>> CONTEXT: COPY option_details, line 1: "item a|item b|item c|item
>> d|item e|item f|item g|item h|item i|..."
>>
>>
>> Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
>>
>> --
>> Hacktorious
>>
>>
> Hi,
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> I pretty sure it doesn't fail after the 9th column, just the context hint
> of the error message is cropped after that.
> My guess is a sneaky '|' somewhere inside one of your field.
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> Regards,
> Sándor
>
> if Sándor is correct this will show the offenders
> awk -F "|" '{if (NF != 25) print}'
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