On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 15:40, michael@floog.net wrote:
> I have tried to COPY the contents of the .csv file into my database
> called TEST_DB, but I'm still doing something incorrectly. Currently,
> database TEST_DB has one table called "matters".
>
> In my attempts listed below, I specified the name of each column/field
> in my database and specified the delimiter used in the .csv file, but
> still no go:
>
> TEST_DB-# copy matters (client_1_lastname, client_1_firstname,
...
> date_close) from '/home/floog/TEST_DB.csv' DELIMITER ',';
>
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "client_1_lastname" at character 2
...
>
> What did I do incorrectly?
You had a previous line without a terminating semi-colon. Notice that
the prompt (TEST_DB-# rather than TEST_DB=#) indicates that this is a
continuation line.
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