From: JSP <jason.palivino@gmail.com>
To: Luckys <plpgsql@gmail.com>
Cc: marchesini@unipg.it, "Achilleus Mantzios" <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: COPY tablename FROM and null values
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:33:11 +0800
Message-ID: <f16343260603220433y57af766ejc2b73a8286651adc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b80d582c0603220427t356241bmae03ee7a042418a6@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1143026331.4730.23.camel@geologia5.agora.ing.unipg.it>
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0603221528500.31329-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
<b80d582c0603220427t356241bmae03ee7a042418a6@mail.gmail.com>
yup... Replace the empty spaces in the file with some other value...
replace null values with \N
then try COPYing again
On 3/22/06, Luckys <plpgsql@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 3/22/06, Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> or Replace the empty spaces in the file with some other value (0.0)
>
> >
> > > thank you very much
> > >
> > > Ivan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > -Achilleus
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
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> >
>
>
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