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From: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
To: Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Finding error in long input file
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 08:05:59 -0700
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On 7/10/24 05:30, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2024, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> 
>> The error:
>>
>> LINE 488: ...2832,1,default,'85250 Red House Rd','Paisley','OR','97636')
>>
>> is giving you the line number and the data:
>> a) Navigate to that line number using whatever method Joe has for that.
>> b) Search for '85250 Red House Rd'.
> 
> Adrian,
> 
> With the semicolon at the end of the line it's the last line in the file.

True, I was fixated on the line number.

> That's why I asked for help in finding where, in all the lines above it, 
> the
> actual error is located.
> 
> FWIW, I use emacs, not vim.
> 
> I'll try inserting the data a few lines at a time, each in a transaction.

If it where me I would make the data a CSV file and use \copy. That is 
an all or none operation and you would get a error message showing you 
where in the file the operation failed.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich
> 
> 

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Adrian Klaver
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