First off - been using postgres for a short time and am really impressed! Much more professional than mysql. When I saw a query plan that actually looked like a query plan I was very pleased! (maybe I'm being a bit harsh on mysql here?)
I'm running postgres 8.3 (just downloaded last week) on my dev machine (Windows Xp). I have what is probably a very simple question. I'm trying to do a bulk insert of up to about 1000 rows using the copy command. I'm using php's pdo for the data access. Here's some example sql I'm sending to the server:
The error I get in the postgres query log is "syntax error at or near "289" at character 65". char 65 is the first line of the data.
The data columns are seperated by a tab (they're not shown in this email properly). Since it's Windows all lines are terminated with both CR and LF. searchindustry is a table with 3 columns. The 2 you can see are integer and the 3rd column is a serial.
I've examined the data in hex and there are no weird chars in it.
I've pasted the same query into the sql tool in pgadmin 3 and I get exactly the same error.
As a side note, if I try to use the copy command to output from a table to stdout the query never completes (pgadmin 3 crashes and I have to kill it and restart). This is probably a pgadmin 3 bug.