Re: Multi-row insert: error at terminal row. [RESOLVED]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 10:39 Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Oct 2020, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> > psql:organizations.sql:1926: ERROR: syntax error at or near ";"
> > LINE 1925: ...m',null,'Port','Opportunity',null);
> ^
> > I'm not seeing why that's an error. All previous rows terminate with a
> comma
> > and I don't know where else to look for the reason. What am I missing
> > seeing?
>
> Rob/Paul/David/Tom/Adrian:
>
> Found the problem in line 26 of 1925 rows: a non-null column had 'null'
> entered rather than one of the allowed values. That row was in the original
> database and I've no idea when I might have changed that.
>
> Why postgres didn't highlight that until I had only a 50-line .sql file I
> don't know. But, when bifircating the original file into smaller pieces and
> I got down to 50 lines postgres showed me exactly what the error was:
>
> psql:orgs-1.sql:50: ERROR: null value in column "industry" violates
> not-null constraint.
>
> Does this happen in newer versions than the 12.2 installed here?
>

I think you found a second problem...covered up by the first, which
prevented the insert from even progressing to the point where a constraint
violation could be encountered. I.e., your original error is syntax.

David J.