Re: copy error

From: "Keith Worthington" <keithw(at)narrowpathinc(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Novice <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: copy error
Date: 2004-10-15 15:07:50
Message-ID: 20041015150750.M39520@narrowpathinc.com
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> Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> writes:
> > I'd guess that there's a carriage return at the end of line 1.
>
> Looks like that to me too.
>
> > You might need to run your data through a filter before importing
> > it into PostgreSQL. Some systems have a dos2unix program; you could
> > also use tr, sed, perl, awk, etc. to strip trailing carriage returns.
>
> Alternatively, update to PG 7.4 or later. Since 7.4 COPY will
> attempt to Do The Right Thing with files containing Windows-style newlines.
>
> regards, tom lane

It turns out there was a carrige return at the end of every line. Thasnk for
the help.

Kind Regards,
Keith

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