Re: Finding error in long input file - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: Finding error in long input file
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Msg-id d4a39f5d-e18e-427f-b3a5-ac6aea1b43c1@aklaver.com
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In response to Re: Finding error in long input file  (Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>)
List pgsql-general
On 7/10/24 05:30, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2024, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> 
>> The error:
>>
>> LINE 488: ...2832,1,default,'85250 Red House Rd','Paisley','OR','97636')
>>
>> is giving you the line number and the data:
>> a) Navigate to that line number using whatever method Joe has for that.
>> b) Search for '85250 Red House Rd'.
> 
> Adrian,
> 
> With the semicolon at the end of the line it's the last line in the file.

True, I was fixated on the line number.

> That's why I asked for help in finding where, in all the lines above it, 
> the
> actual error is located.
> 
> FWIW, I use emacs, not vim.
> 
> I'll try inserting the data a few lines at a time, each in a transaction.

If it where me I would make the data a CSV file and use \copy. That is 
an all or none operation and you would get a error message showing you 
where in the file the operation failed.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rich
> 
> 

-- 
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com




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