I'm using PostgreSQL 9.0 via pgAdmin III
I'm trying to build a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database using
Entire country files dataset but I'm getting missing data error
I'm wondering if the copy command is affected by diacritics or I've not set the database up properly
Created a new database with UTF8 encoding
I built the table schema based on the
given format (but using type text for NM_MODIFY_DATE not varchar, having these as dates didn't make a difference)
I used large text viewer to open the uncompressed countries.txt file and copied the top 5 rows into a test file
Using PostgreSQL Copy this test file imported correctly so I know my schema is correct
copy my_table(List of columns ) from '\\Path\\To\\TestFile.txt' WITH delimiter E'\t' csv HEADER;
However when I tried to ingest the larger countries.txt (2.9GB) file I get an error "missing data" for column xyz at line 12345 (Last column with data in that row, NM_MODIFY_DATE)
Using large text viewer again I located this line and copied together with proceeding and following lines into my test file and tried the copy again but get the same error
I opened the test file in excel to see if there is columns missing although not every row has data in each column they do all match
the problem row has UFI -3373955 & UNI 6329083
I don't know if this is relevant but looking at the database properties , in pgAdmin, the 'collection' & 'Character type' are both set as "English_United Kingdom, 1252 " I didn't set this and creating a new DB the options are "C", "English_United Kingdom, 1252 " or "POSIX"
Could someone suggest what I'm doing wrong?
Thank you
