Re: How to load nulls into timestamp field

From: "Joshua b(dot) Jore" <josh(at)greentechnologist(dot)org>
To: Pam Wampler <Pam_Wampler(at)taylorwhite(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How to load nulls into timestamp field
Date: 2002-02-19 21:27:39
Message-ID: Pine.BSO.4.40.0202191526470.28953-100000@kitten.greentechnologist.org
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I seem to remember having similar problems. Use the additional syntax
"WITH NULL AS ''". That redefined NULL (during the copy) from \N to the
empty string.

Joshua b. Jore
http://www.greentechnologist.org

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Pam Wampler wrote:

> If I am trying to load data into tables:
> using psql -c "\copy $file from $file using delimiters | "
>
> and the table has a column of datatype timestamp that allows nulls,
> the input record has the delimiter | in its place --
> I get the ERROR: copy: line 1, Bad timestamp external representation ''
>
> why? please help
>
> Pam Wampler
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