Re: COPY tablename FROM and null values

O ivan marchesini έγραψε στις 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.

>
> thank you very much
>
> Ivan
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