Re: COPY error with null date

From: Bill Todd <pg(at)dbginc(dot)com>
To: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org >> PgSQL General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: COPY error with null date
Date: 2008-12-08 00:13:50
Message-ID: 493C66BE.4000503@dbginc.com
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 12:00 -0700, Bill Todd wrote:
>
>> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 19:35 -0700, Bill Todd wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>> null as IS NULL results in the following error.
>>
>> ERROR: syntax error at or near "is"
>> LINE 5: null as is null
>> ^
>>
>> ********** Error **********
>>
>> ERROR: syntax error at or near "is"
>> SQL state: 42601
>> Character: 109
>>
>> Any other suggestions?
>>
>
>
> COPY foo FROM '/tmp/bar' NULL as 'NULL'
>
>
copy billing.contact from 'c:/export/contact.csv'
with csv delimiter as ','
null as 'NULL'
quote as '"';

produces the same error. I am beginning to suspect this is impossible. :-(

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