Re: ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: SQL state: 22P02

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:30 PM, avalon78 geek <avalon78(dot)gr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> yes that was i changed editor and worked !
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> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
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>> avalon78 geek <avalon78(dot)gr(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> > i issue the following sql command
>> > COPY cust
>> > FROM 'C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.1\customers.txt'
>> > WITH DELIMITER ';' ;
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>> > and i get an error
>> > ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "13"
>> > SQL state: 22P02
>>
>> That looks like you have a Unicode BOM marker at the start of the file.
>> There are some (pretty broken IMO) Windows editors that add such behind
>> your back in order to mark a text file as being text ... of course, it's
>> not plain text anymore, and BOM is useless/illegal in UTF-8 anyway, but
>> standards compliance was never Microsoft's strong suit.
>>
>> Save the file with some other editor.
>>
>> regards, tom lane
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