Re: ERROR: extra data after last expected column

On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 3:34 PM scott macri <hacktorious(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 at 09:34, Scott Macri <Scott(at)bitsnbytes(dot)io> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to use the postgres copy command and getting, "extra data
>>> after last expected column".
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> It pukes after the 9th column every time no matter what I change.
>>>
>>> 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,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sándor
>>
>> if Sándor is correct this will show the offenders
>> awk -F "|" '{if (NF != 25) print}'
>>
>>
>>
Can you send the CSV file that is causing the problem as a CSV file
attachment so some of us can try this as a full reproduction? I don't want
to copy/paste the sample line from the text of the email as it seems like
that wouldn't be a good replication path for such a weird bug..

Steve