Re: Newbie trying to load table with data...

On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 19:41, Kurt Gunderson wrote:
> Sorry guys, I am new to Postgresql and have exhausted my reading
> material. I am trying to load a "k_device" table with records from an
> pipe-delimited ascii file ("/home/kurt/data/sql.device.d"). In psql, I
> get the following...

> <SECOND>
> test1=> \copy "k_device" from "/home/kurt/data/sql.device.d" with
> delimiters '|'
>
> \copy: parse error at 'delimiters'
> <\SECOND>
>
> and...
>
> <THIRD>
> test1=> \copy "k_device" from "/home/kurt/data/sql.device.d" using
> delimiters '|'
>
> "/home/kurt/data/sql.device.d": No such file or directory
> <\THIRD>
>
> What am I doing wrong? Please help.

You're using the wrong kind of quotes. The filepath must be in single
quotes:

\copy k_device from '/home/kurt/data/sql.device.d' using delimiters '|'

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