Re: How to load nulls into timestamp field - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Joshua b. Jore
Subject Re: How to load nulls into timestamp field
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Msg-id Pine.BSO.4.40.0202191526470.28953-100000@kitten.greentechnologist.org
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In response to How to load nulls into timestamp field  (Pam Wampler <Pam_Wampler@taylorwhite.com>)
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I seem to remember having similar problems. Use the additional syntax
"WITH NULL AS ''". That redefined NULL (during the copy) from \N to the
empty string.

Joshua b. Jore
http://www.greentechnologist.org

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Pam Wampler wrote:

> If I am trying to load data into tables:
> using psql  -c "\copy $file from $file using delimiters | "
>
> and the table has a column of datatype timestamp that allows nulls,
> the input record has the delimiter | in its place --
> I get the ERROR:  copy: line 1, Bad timestamp external representation ''
>
> why?  please help
>
> Pam Wampler
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