Question about numeric - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Erwin Ambrosch
Subject Question about numeric
Date
Msg-id 200205221032.g4MAWCL05840@email.ebutec.at
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Hi,

when I import data from a text file (fildes are seperated with pipes) I get
an error for fields of type numeric if there are no data for this fields.

Example:

CREATE TABLE mytable (
  id    SERIAL,
  num      VARCHAR(32),
  cost      NUMERIC(6,2),
  info       TEXT
);

A line to import from a text file.

1|123abc||This part is....

Because of the empty field for the column cost, I get the following error:

ERROR:  copy: line 1, Bad numeric input format ''
PQendcopy: resetting connection

This works (zero for the column cost):
1|123abc|0|This part is....

Thanks Erwin

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