I've encountered this before, psql gives me a syntax error for no clear reason. It's allways on the first character of a sql file. I think that there must be some strange character code at the first position, maybe it is because i share a ntfs partition with the windows installation on my laptop and move files around. I only editted this file with gedit, pgAdmin and vim on ubuntu lucid desktop.
Here's the error:
postgres=# \i db02-vulling.sql psql:db02-vulling.sql:1: ERROR: syntax error at or near "begin" LINE 1: begin; ^ INSERT 0 10100 INSERT 0 101 INSERT 0 100 psql:db02-vulling.sql:12: WARNING: there is no transaction in progress COMMIT postgres=#
The file is in the attachment, both gzipped and as-is. I hope someone can reproduce this. (the code itself makes no sense but that's not relevant here)
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