Re: Using \copy to populate a table

From: rob stone <floriparob(at)tpg(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Brent Wood <brent(dot)wood(at)earthsciences(dot)nz>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Using \copy to populate a table
Date: 2026-03-17 12:08:29
Message-ID: 327a4bfde1f1c55e50d0436c0f6dceb41e4afc75.camel@tpg.com.au
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On Sun, 2026-03-15 at 07:21 +0000, Brent Wood wrote:
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> Have you tried explicitly specifying the string to represent null
> values?
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> COPY table_name FROM 'path/to/file' WITH (FORMAT text, NULL 'null');
> -- Or the older syntax:
> COPY table_name FROM 'path/to/file' WITH DELIMITER ',' NULL AS
> 'null';
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Hello,

I took on board Adrian's suggestion and went back to the source and had
the file recreated and it has now been loaded successfully.

Cheers,
Rob

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