Re: Value Too long varchar(100)

You should be able to do something with this if you require it to be done
with COPY:

https://paquier.xyz/postgresql-2/postgres-9-3-feature-highlight-copy-tofrom-program/

But, as David suggested, I'd also recommend to do an intermediate step, and
load the data into a table, or pre-process the file to be how you want it.

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 7:19 PM David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 5:02 AM Rama Krishnan <raghuldrag(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi team,
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>> We are getting csv file from client to upload data in my db table , one
>> particular column I. E clinet description column contains more than 100
>> character hence I am getting value too long varchar (100) so we decided to
>> upload db only first 100 characters. How to use this thing in copy command
>>
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> You cannot. Either fix the content of the file or remove the arbitrary
> length limitation on the field (i.e., change the type to "text"). I
> suggest the later. You may also,copy into a temporary staging table that
> lacks the limit, then use insert to move the transformed data (via a select
> query) into the production table.
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> David J.
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