Re: COPY tablename FROM and null values

yup... Replace the empty spaces in the file with some other value...

replace null values with \N

then try COPYing again

On 3/22/06, Luckys <plpgsql(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On 3/22/06, Achilleus Mantzios <achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com> wrote:
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> > O ivan marchesini έγραψε στις Mar 22, 2006 :
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> > > 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.
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> or Replace the empty spaces in the file with some other value (0.0)
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> >
> > > thank you very much
> > >
> > > Ivan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > -Achilleus
> >
> >
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> >
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