Re: Looking for postgres equivalent of mysqlimport - Mailing list pgsql-novice

Marc,

I hadn't noticed that for that table I left out the with NULL AS
'NULL'.  That did fix the problem.  I appreciate the help.  I now have
a completed database from mysql!

Sean



On Sep 17, 2004, at 12:37 PM, M. Bastin wrote:

> At 12:31 PM -0400 9/17/04, Sean Davis wrote:
>> Marc,
>>
>> That seemed to get most of the way (setting to NULL).  However, it
>> seems that does not work for integer columns?  I'm still getting an
>> error:
>>
>> ERROR:  invalid input syntax for integer: "NULL"
>> CONTEXT:  COPY cgap_lib,line 1, column clones: "NULL"
>
> Your text columns will probably have imported the text "NULL."
>
> From http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/sql-copy.html
>
> "null string
>
>  The string that represents a null value. The default is  \N
> (backslash-N). You might prefer an empty string, for example."
>
> You can choose your own null string with:
>   [ NULL [ AS ] 'null string' ] ]
>
> Marc