| From: | Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Sarfraz Nawaz <sarfraz(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Import CSV date issues |
| Date: | 2013-03-04 14:47:21 |
| Message-ID: | CAHyXU0wKjFdJX2KSvaC+n4ZDnA0dJ=QPcQ2Or=KrkSGgF-1e0Q@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Sarfraz Nawaz <sarfraz(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Tom you are a legend! There were invisible characters at the start of
> the file which were not being shown with "head" and "cat". Removing
> them fixed the issue and copy worked like a charm. Thank you!
yup -- many utilities (especially on windows) are aware of BOM and
will suppress it. hexdump is a good way to catch it out. Ideally you
can disable BOM creation on whatever is producing your csv.
merlin
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