Re: Import fails on single quote.

From: "Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)" <bob(dot)basques(at)ci(dot)stpaul(dot)mn(dot)us>
To: dsbw <dsbw(at)protonmail(dot)com>, "pgadmin-support(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgadmin-support(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Import fails on single quote.
Date: 2021-05-13 19:05:25
Message-ID: CC3D1584-A9B4-4507-8F95-132D23026DC3@ci.stpaul.mn.us
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Probably because of the number on the end. So its failing on the end of words, and a number on the end, still equals on the end of a word (to Postgres).

Bobb

From: dsbw <dsbw(at)protonmail(dot)com>
Reply-To: dsbw <dsbw(at)protonmail(dot)com>
Date: Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 1:45 PM
To: "pgadmin-support(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgadmin-support(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Import fails on single quote.

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OK, it's not as straightforward as an unpaired single quote. I just had one fail on:

"PET'1'"

So the single quote is paired, and caused the problem. So I changed it to "PET 1"...and the whole import worked. But I got suspicious and started looking at the data for single quotes and found things like "T'BIRD", "B--CH'N!!" and "JOHN'S WIFE" and those all worked.

So I'm not sure what the deal is.

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On Tuesday, May 11th, 2021 at 12:01 PM, dsbw <dsbw(at)protonmail(dot)com> wrote:

Hello,

Trying to import data, tab-delimited but unfortunately with quotes around string fields anyway. Like:

1234<tab>"JOHN"<tab>"SMITH"<tab>5678

PGAdmin import fails when the quoted value contains a single quote:

1234<tab>"EMPLOYEES'"<tab>"CREDIT UNION"<tab>5678

So the trailing quote (for possessive) after "EMPLOYEES" trips it up. Seems like, if one is inside a set of double-quotes, any single quotes should be ignored? (I know CSV is multiply and contradictorily defined, but still.)

===Blake===

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