Received: from localhost (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25CDA475FC5 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:59:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from email01.aon.at (WARSL402PIP3.highway.telekom.at [195.3.96.97]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FF40475F5E for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:59:08 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 342496 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2002 18:59:07 -0000 Received: from m155p014.dipool.highway.telekom.at (HELO cantor) ([62.46.9.78]) (envelope-sender ) by qmail1rs.highway.telekom.at (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 11 Dec 2002 18:59:07 -0000 From: Manfred Koizar To: "mzmaxmail@libero.it" Cc: "pgsql-sql" Subject: Re: error in copy table from file Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 19:59:00 +0100 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS new-20020517 X-Archive-Number: 200212/136 X-Sequence-Number: 10724 On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 18:40:48 +0100, "mzmaxmail@libero.it" wrote: >copy table from 'path/file' using delimiters ';' > >it returns the following: > >'RROR: copy: line 1, Bad float8 input format '-0.123 ^ This belongs to the end of the error message. Finding it here at the beginning of the line makes me think your file has DOS style end of lines (CR/LF). Convert them to Unix style (LF only). Servus Manfred