Re: COPY error - Mailing list pgsql-cygwin

Hi,
I'm using 7.3.2.. I tried to find 7.4beta5 but couldn't find it on any of
the cywin mirror sites, only on postgresql.org. Also, I ran d2u again on the
file to generate a new text file and now I get a new error when I try to
copy the data to the database:

ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "'/home/Nupur/Pine2_Results'" at
character 20
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "'/home/Nupur/Pine2_Results'" at
character 20

I haven't changed anything in the file from the previous time except running
d2u on it again..

Also, I'm not sure how to change the file to newline-only.

Thanks for your help,
Nupur

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: "Nupur Pande" <npande@vt.edu>
Cc: <pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [CYGWIN] COPY error


>
> My guess is that the file is carriage-return/newline terminated.  Change
> it to newline-only.  This is fixed in 7.4beta5.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>
> Nupur Pande wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to copy data from an excel file into a postgres table. I
saved
> > the file in .txt format (tab delimited) from Excel (running on Windows
XP
> > machine) and then ran the d2u utility on the .txt file to convert it
into
> > unix format on cygwin. The command I executed was COPY [table_name] from
> > [full path of file name].
> > I get the following error message:
> > ERROR:  copy: line 1520, Extra data after last expected column
> > ERROR:  copy: line 1520, Extra data after last expected column
> >
> > Could someone please tell me what I did wrong? I checked the excel table
and
> > I can't see any extra information on that line.
> >
> > Thanks a lot..
> > Nupur
> >
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