From: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: ivan marchesini <marchesini@unipg.it>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: COPY tablename FROM and null values
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:29:56 +0200 (EET)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0603221528500.31329-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1143026331.4730.23.camel@geologia5.agora.ing.unipg.it>
O ivan marchesini Ýãñáøå óôéò Mar 22, 2006 :
> Dear users,
> I'm working on a Postgres 7.4 server
>
> I have a .txt file, containing some tabular data, where data are
> delimited by TABs.
> there are 3 columns:
>
> column1 int4, column2 float8, column3 float8
>
> the problem is that column3 contains also null values (i.e. sometimes is
> empty)
>
> so when I try to use COPY tablename FROM 'filename.txt' I obtain an
> error
>
> I have tried also using " WITH NULL AS ' ' " but without good results...
>
> can someone explain me how to solve this problem???
batch edit your file (with sed,awk,perl,C,java,...) and build your
explicit INSERT statements in some version of your file.
>
> thank you very much
>
> Ivan
>
>
>
>
>
--
-Achilleus
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