Re: Multi-row insert: error at terminal row. [RESOLVED]

On 10/29/20 10:39 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2020, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>> psql:organizations.sql:1926: ERROR:  syntax error at or near ";"
>> LINE 1925: ...m',null,'Port','Opportunity',null);
>                                                 ^
>> I'm not seeing why that's an error. All previous rows terminate with a
>> comma
>> and I don't know where else to look for the reason. What am I missing
>> seeing?
>
> Rob/Paul/David/Tom/Adrian:
>
> Found the problem in line 26 of 1925 rows: a non-null column had 'null'
> entered rather than one of the allowed values. That row was in the original
> database and I've no idea when I might have changed that.
>
> Why postgres didn't highlight that until I had only a 50-line .sql file I
> don't know. But, when bifircating the original file into smaller pieces and
> I got down to 50 lines postgres showed me exactly what the error was:
>
> psql:orgs-1.sql:50: ERROR:  null value in column "industry" violates
> not-null constraint.
>
> Does this happen in newer versions than the 12.2 installed here?

Per Tom's response, I'm not sure how a constraint error got transformed
into a syntax error?

Is orgs-1.sql just the INSERT?

How is that file being fed to psql?

>
> Whew!
>
> Stay well all ... and VOTE!
>
> Rich
>
>
>

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