COPY with null - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Karen Smallwood
Subject COPY with null
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Msg-id D15742B46C848A49A3C085D96EA5EC91DC37E5@firebird.mightyautoparts.com
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I have seen this question asked, but the answer doesn't seem to have worked for the other person or myself.  I have
severalfiles I need to copy into postgres and if I try   
COPY compmstr from '/user/local/testfile' using delimiters '\t' with null as '' (or '\N' or '\t\t' or anything else);
I get ERROR:  copy: line 1, Bad numeric input format '' (or whatever I used).  I am using files that can have numeric
nullsand/or character nulls 

Anyone figure this one out?  I'm on 7.3.2

Karen Smallwood
Programmer/Analyst
Mighty Distributing System of America, Inc.
650 Engineering Drive
Norcross, Georgia 30092
(770) 448-3900
(770) 446-8627 fax


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