Re: Cannot import logs from csv - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 10/18/2013 08:07 AM, Helen Griffiths wrote:

Hello.

I've got a table set up on server B to store the logs from server A, as
outlined in
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/runtime-config-logging.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-LOGGING-CSVLOG

Every day, I set \encoding SQL_ASCII on server B (server A is SQL_ASCII)
and use \copy with the csv flag to upload yesterday's log file to the
table.  For months, this has worked flawlessly until 12th October.  The
import failed with a message:
postgres=# \copy maincluster_log FROM maincluster-20131011.csv CSV
ERROR:  extra data after last expected column
CONTEXT:  COPY maincluster_log, line 424855: "2013-10-11 15:58:59.463
BST,"apachemitre","course_records",30875,"[local]",52581233.789b,3,"idle",20..."


The failing line, I will give at the end because it is long.

PostgreSQL version on both servers is 8.4, running on CentOS 6.3.

Please, does anyone have some insight into why this fails?

This came up before recently in this thread:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CADK3HHJNEWKD9gNyXmjv9ABbn+37rY3Mvp9=1j7msg9YpoBBBw@mail.gmail.com

To cut to the chase, in that case the OP found:

"Ok, I found the offending line. It was not the pgadmin line. There was a line with a large binary insert."

Not sure if that helps.

Helen Griffiths

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