Re: Import question

Hi Scobey,

Did you click on more details on the import progress notifier ? It would
give you more logs to help.

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 6:52 AM Ahmed, Nawaz (Fuji Xerox Australia) <
Nawaz(dot)Ahmed(at)aus(dot)fujixerox(dot)com> wrote:

> Are you running this import into a database in Linux environment or a
> Windows environment ?
>
> I am guessing (I could be wrong), it has something to do with control
> characters in your datafile such as ^M or ^H, which are usually visible if
> you edit the file in a Linux host using 'vi' editor.
>
> And what is the import command are you using, is it a COPY command ?
>
> ~
>
> Nawaz
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scobey Weaver <scobey49(at)verizon(dot)net>
> Sent: Thursday, 28 May 2020 6:11 AM
> To: pgadmin-support(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Import question
>
> I'm taking a skillshare course and creating my own tables. I tried to
> import some data from a csv file and it didn't work. I thought I had done
> it just like the example on the video, and also checked some other online
> sources which seemed to do it the same way.
>
> Attached is the file I'm trying to import.
>
> The table I'm importing to was created as follows:
>
> CREATE TABLE public.markets
> (
> id integer NOT NULL,
> "Market" character varying(50) COLLATE pg_catalog."default" NOT NULL,
> CONSTRAINT markets_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id),
> CONSTRAINT unique_market UNIQUE ("Market")
> )
>
> TABLESPACE pg_default;
>
> ALTER TABLE public.markets
> OWNER to postgres;
> COMMENT ON TABBLE public.markets
> IS 'Market used as the price index (posted, Platts, Opis, Argus,
> etc...)';
>
> The import fails with the following error: Failed (exit code -6)
>
> I can't find "exit code -6" anywhere. What's wrong with my import?
>
> I've had one reply to this that brought up encoding. I left the encoding
> blank at first, as did the instructor in the skillshare video. Since then
> I've tried the UTF8 suggested by the person who brought it up. I also
> tried BIG5, EUC_CN, SQL_ASCII and WIN1250.
>
> All efforts ended with the same result. Is there a list of exit codes
> anywhere? What's "exit code -6"?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scobey
>
>
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>
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