Re: Syntax error in a large COPY

On 11/6/07, Reg Me Please <regmeplease(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Il Tuesday 06 November 2007 19:43:38 Scott Marlowe ha scritto:
> > On 11/6/07, Reg Me Please <regmeplease(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > > That seems not to be the case.
> > > The last line has a \. by its own and the last but one is
> > > well formed.
> >
> > (Please don't top post...)
> >
> > Got a self contained test case you can post?
>
> Back to the original topic ...
>
> I'm trying to understand what and where.
> The point is that I have this 29M+ lines script telling me there's a problem
> somewhere.
>
> A self contained test, at the moment, would be that long!
>
> I'm considering a "branch and bound" approach ... but it'd be quite long
> and tedious as the program generating the script has not been written
> to do such things.

Split it in half, with the appropriate sql on each end so the data
still works, and see which half causes a problem. Keep splitting the
one that causes a problem in half until you have a small one with the
problem still.

I'm guessing the problem will become obvious then.