Re: COPY command

Hi ,

yes now i can do the copy after replace comma delimiter with tab delimiter
which is default copy with delimiter . btw  i've another
question : how do we run the COPY command from file which has several null
columns in each field.  
thanks.

example :

   dwnc=# copy biosadm.custinv_temp
dwnc-# from '/home/bios/customer_data/CustomerInvoice_5Dec03_tab.txt' ;
ERROR:  copy: line 1, Missing data for column "subsidiary"  

p/s: my subsidiary column has several null data.

"Gregory S. Williamson" <gsw(at)globexplorer(dot)com>
07:06 PM PST Yesterday

To: <azwa(at)nc(dot)com(dot)my>, <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
cc:
Subject: RE: [SQL] COPY command

This sounds as if the last character in each line might be a delimiter (a
",") which is standard for data unloaded from some sources; if this is the
case try removing it and your data should load. Or you may have a comma in
a character field and that is throwing off the count for the line in
question ?

HTH,

Greg Williamson
DBA
GlobeXplorer LLC

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Sent: Tue 1/6/2004 10:19 PM
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Subject: [SQL] COPY command

Hi,

i try to load a file into temporary table but it gives me an error . do
u have any idea/solutions ?? the command that i've running as below :

dwnc=# copy biosadm.custdo_temp
dwnc-# from '/home/bios/customer_data/CustomerDO_new.CSV'
dwnc-# WITH DELIMITER ',' ;

ERROR: copy: line 141, Extra data after last expected column

FYI, my file was in comma delimiter type (csv) . My table structure as
following :

dwnc-# \dbiosadm.custdo_temp
Table "biosadm.custdo_temp"
Column | Type | Modifiers
----------+-----------------------+-----------
dono | character varying(13) |
dodate | date |
custname | character varying(70) |
custlo | character varying(40) |
attnto | character varying(80) |

Please guide me . thanks