Find missing data in a column

From: john polo <jpolo(at)mail(dot)usf(dot)edu>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Find missing data in a column
Date: 2021-12-29 17:43:55
Message-ID: ff98e797-4d49-9ffb-6e60-e9dfdc72cd6f@mail.usf.edu
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Hi,

I have a database in PostgreSQL 12 on Windows. It has > 8,000,000 rows.
I want to copy this database to PostgreSQL 10 on Slackware Linux. I used
this command to get the data out of the Windows database:

"C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\12\bin\pg_dump.exe"
--file="C:\Users\Nightrunner\DOCUMENTS\programming\pg_out\ebird_sptl_all.dump"
--host="localhost" --port="5432" --username="postgres" --password
--verbose --format=c --no-owner --no-privileges --dbname="ebird_work"
--table="p_loc.ebd_sptl"

On Slackware, I first:

su postgres

Then try:

psql ebirds

SET SEARCH_PATH TO p_loc;

COPY p_loc.ebird_sptl FROM
'/nt-d/projects_and_data/ebd_OR/ebird_sptl_all.dump';

That fails with

missing data for column "COMMON_NAME"

I understand this means there is a problem with one or more rows in the
column referenced. This is a column of text. How do I find the error(s)
in question?

Cheers,

John

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