Re: Error Importing CSV File - Mailing list pgsql-general

Can you show the output of \d geo_data ?
Try  'using' delimiters
Are you doing this as the postgres superuser?
  Because COPY can't load from files as a casual user, you need to pipe it to copy & read from stdin.

Simple script below works for me, modified copy statement might help?.

HTH,

  Brent Wood


#! /bin/bash

DB=test

psql -d $DB -c "drop table geo_data;"
# latitude has only one 't'
psql -d $DB -c "create table geo_data
                ( zip_code  text,
                  latitude  float8,
                  longitude float8,
                  city      text,
                  state     text,
                  county    text);"

echo "96799,-7.209975,-170.7716,PAGO PAGO,AS,AMERICAN SAMOA
96941,7.138297,151.503116,POHNPEI,FM,FEDERATED STATES OF MICRO
96942,7.138297,151.503116,CHUUK,FM,FEDERATED STATES OF MICRO" | \
psql -d $DB -c "copy geo_data from stdin using delimiters ',' null '';"

psql -d $DB -c "select * from geo_data;"



Output:

 zip_code | latitude  | longitude  |   city    | state |          county          
----------+-----------+------------+-----------+-------+---------------------------
 96799    | -7.209975 |  -170.7716 | PAGO PAGO | AS    | AMERICAN SAMOA
 96941    |  7.138297 | 151.503116 | POHNPEI   | FM    | FEDERATED STATES OF MICRO
 96942    |  7.138297 | 151.503116 | CHUUK     | FM    | FEDERATED STATES OF MICRO
(3 rows)





>>> Bryan Nelson <shrek@shreks-place.com> 07/16/11 7:15 AM >>>
I am having problems importing a CSV file of sample data for testing
in a web app.

Columns & Types
-------------------
zip_code - text
lattitude - float8
longitude - float8
city - text
state - text
county - text

Some Sample Data From CSV File
------------------------------
96799,-7.209975,-170.7716,PAGO PAGO,AS,AMERICAN SAMOA
96941,7.138297,151.503116,POHNPEI,FM,FEDERATED STATES OF MICRO
96942,7.138297,151.503116,CHUUK,FM,FEDERATED STATES OF MICRO

COPY Command
------------
COPY geo_data FROM 'geo_data2.csv' DELIMITERS ',' CSV;

Error Message
-------------
ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "96799"
CONTEXT: COPY geo_data, line 1, column id: "96799"

I can't figure out why it keeps choking with "invalid syntax for
integer" since the field was created as "text".

Any and all help greatly appreciated!

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