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Subject: Re: end of COPY
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 10:40:33 -0500
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On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM Marc Millas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> on a Postgres 16 DB running on a redhat 8.5 x86 machineI want to input
> some data using copy from stdin
> so.. more that 700 000 lines goes well.
> Then the flow contains a single line: \.
> to my understanding this means end of the copy
>
I just tested this on PG 16.8. No backslash.
$ psql TAP -Xc "copy public.job_notification TO STDOUT;"
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/sql-copy.html
"End of data *can be* represented by a single line containing just
backslash-period (\.)."
"the end-of-data marker (\.) or the null string (\N by default)."
> but, Postgres generates an error :
> invalid input syntax for type numeric "\."
> then the 2 lines stating the copy command that was executed.
>
> what am I missing ?
>
COPY is expecting something after the backslash.
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