I am attempting to move an unusually large legacy database from old DBF files into a Postgres database. I’ve been able to clean up the DBF tables, export them to CSV and convert that CSV into a SQL batch file.
My batch file contains 10 million INSERT queries to populate the corresponding table in Postgres.
When I run it, I see only three errors, all of them having to do with my admitted failure to escape single quotes in one of my fields when I parsed the CSV.
[my_command_line_prompt]$ psql mydatabase -f mybatchfile.sql > log.txt
Password:
psql:mybatchfile.sql:2279459: ERROR: syntax error at or near "P" at character 68
psql:mybatchfile.sql:2279459: LINE 1: ...VALUES ('XXXXXXXXX','SMITH','','JOHN',''','P','09','3...
psql:mybatchfile.sql:2279459: ^
psql:mybatchfile.sql:3117024: ERROR: syntax error at or near "','" at character 64
psql:mybatchfile.sql:3117024: LINE 1: ...mf1 VALUES ('XXXXXXXXX','SMITH','','JOHN',''',' ','10','28...
psql:mybatchfile.sql:3117024: ^
psql:mybatchfile.sql:6775763: ERROR: syntax error at or near "P" at character 67
psql:mybatchfile.sql:6775763: LINE 1: ... VALUES ('XXXXXXXXXX','SMITH','','JOHN',''','P','01','0...
psql:mybatchfile.sql:6775763:
However, when afterwards I go into the psql prompt and do a SELECT COUNT(*) … on the table, I see there are only 4.5 million or so records in the table. Appropriately enough, the log.txt file I’m outputting to in the aforementioned command has 4.5 million or so lines, each saying “INSERT 0 1”.
So is Postgres skipping over some 5+ million lines in my batch file? If so, why isn’t it spitting only 3 error messages out? How else can I see what’s going wrong with those 5 million INSERT commands? Are there any other factors which would cause this sort of data loss?
I have, for the record, attempting to get all 10 million rows in with a single COPY command. This method has not been successful, apparently due to client encoding (despite executing several different “set client_encoding” in each attempt).
If this sort of question has been asked before, I apologize – but I did search the mailing list archive before posting.
Thanks in advance.
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Jeremy Milarsky
