I am trying to load 143K rows into a postgres-9.0.5 table from an ASCII
text file. The file consists of INSERT INTO ... statements and the VALUES
are comma delimited. One column is numeric (REAL), but ~10K rows have that
value missing, and postgres rejects the lines.
The column does not have a NOT NULL constraint.
The command line I use is 'psql -d <database_name> -f wq.sql'.
Originally I had two commas in sequence since there were no values between
them. Next I tried a space between the two commas. I tried searching in the
9.0.5 manual for 'missing values', 'missing', and another term I don't
recall but found nothing.
An example:
psql:wq.sql:8121: ERROR: syntax error at or near ","
LINE 1: ...its) VALUES (214,'SW-6','1992-11-25','oil_grease', ,'mg/L');
What is the approprate way to represent the missing column?
TIA,
Rich
