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From: john guthrie <jguthrie@psynapsetech.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: problem with 'copy binary' file format
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:41:08 -0500
Message-ID: <3E2E9164.1080201@psynapsetech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13049.1043187541@sss.pgh.pa.us>
References: <3E2DB3A2.7020503@psynapsetech.net>
	<13049.1043187541@sss.pgh.pa.us>

i agree. i'm not doing anything with the file. i can start up psql, type:

   copy binary my_table from 'tmpfile';

and get the exact same error message. the table schema, by the way, 
consists of two int4's, a timestamp, and a bytea.

thanks.
john

Tom Lane wrote:
> john guthrie <jguthrie@psynapsetech.net> writes:
> 
>>i am having a problem creating a 'copy binary' input file in c
>>on my linux box running postgresql 7.2.2. the error message i get is:
>>   ERROR:  copy: line 1, pg_atoi: error in "PGBCOPY": can't parse "PGBCOPY"
> 
> 
> And what exactly are you doing with the file after you create it?
> pg_atoi shouldn't be invoked at all during COPY BINARY FROM ...
> 
> 			regards, tom lane
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