Re: What am I doing wrong with this comma-delimited copy? - Mailing list pgsql-novice

James Long wrote:
> Welcome to psql 8.1.8, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
>
> Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
>        \h for help with SQL commands
>        \? for help with psql commands
>        \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
>        \q to quit
>
> james=> \pset fieldsep ,
> Field separator is ",".
> james=> \copy transactions from bar
> \.
> ERROR:  value too long for type character(14)
> CONTEXT:  COPY transactions, line 1, column symbol: "Cash,0,0,Cash Adjustment,4/2/2007,,,0.87,0,0,
,BALANCE-SWPT1 TO T2,16,,Financial" 
>
>
> psql appears to be treating the entire input line as one tuple,
> instead of seeing the fieldsep value as a field delimiter.
>
>
See here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/sql-copy.html

fieldsep does not affect the COPY command.