Re: Dumping database using 8.1 or 7.1

From: "Jaime Casanova" <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Jonathan Vallar" <bamvallar(dot)db(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Dumping database using 8.1 or 7.1
Date: 2006-08-09 00:06:56
Message-ID: c2d9e70e0608081706k4744213eja6e493910a36c9b9@mail.gmail.com
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> It was a little hassle though because I have to manually remove "\M" from
> the dump file. This is manageable.
>
> I am stucked though with one problem
> psql:si_t2:36: ERROR: missing data for column "remarks"
> CONTEXT: COPY si_t2, line 145: <some data>
>
> Upon checking line 145, there are no weird characters. Upon checking the
> whole dump file, the db dump still containts
>
>
> Sample data:
> "jonathan \"
> " "
>

maybe data was:
"jonathan \N"

and that "\N" means a null value in COPY dialect...

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Jaime Casanova

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