Problems with \copy

Dear all,

I am having problems loading files with \copy. It seems that there are
problems with the newline character. I am working on Mac OS X 10.1.2.
and I am trying to load a file into postgresql that has been saved as a
tab delimited text file using excel. I tried already reading the file
via a Java program and writing it into a new file in order to be able to
write \n, \r and System.getProperty("line.separator") at the end of each
line. However, the error message is still

CopyReadNewline: extra fields ignored

Any suggestions?

Many thanks,
Klaudia

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Klaudia Walter
Department of Pathology
University of Cambridge
Tennis Court Road
Cambridge CB2 1QP
Tel: 01223 333 338
email: kw243(at)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk
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