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About COPY

From
Andrés Repossi
Date:
Hi, I'm new working with PostgreSQL, and I'm trying to load an ascii text file to a table using the command copy but it throws me an error message that it can't parse the line, and I don't really don't know why is this hapening.

The sentence I'm using is: 

copy tfal from 'C:\\tfal.txt' with delimiter '|'

Te error message is: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "delimiter"

The tfal.txt has only one row, and the format of the row is:

5|M|118 |BELLAFRONTE|LUIS|0|0|0|1996|9|15|818  |2    |54  |1996|B|||1996|11|1|0|02/04/2003|

and, the schema of the table is:

CREATE TABLE tfal (

tfal_dni int4 NOT NULL, 

tfal_sexo char(1) NOT NULL, 

tfal_ofisec char(4), 

tfal_ape varchar(35), 

tfal_nom varchar(35), 

tfal_anionac int2, 

tfal_mesnac int2, 

tfal_dianac int2, 

tfal_aniofal int2, 

tfal_mesfal int2, 

tfal_diafal int2, 

tfal_acta char(5), 

tfal_tomo char(5), 

tfal_folio char(4), 

tfal_anioi int2, 

tfal_provfal char(1), 

tfal_dptofal char(2), 

tfal_localfal varchar(30), 

tfal_anioing int2, 

tfal_mesing int2, 

tfal_diaing int2, 

tfal_fechaps int4, 

tfal_fechacarga date, 

CONSTRAINT tfal_pkey PRIMARY KEY (tfal_dni, tfal_sexo)

) WITH OIDS;

Does anyone had a trouble like this?, I don't understand what am I doing wrong. The version of the PGAdmin II I'm using is 1.4.12.

Could anyone lend me a hand please, thanks,


Andrés

Re: About COPY

From
Robert Treat
Date:
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 09:07, Andrés Repossi wrote:
> Hi, I'm new working with PostgreSQL, and I'm trying to load an ascii
> text file to a table using the command copy but it throws me an error
> message that it can't parse the line, and I don't really don't know why
> is this hapening.
>
> The sentence I'm using is:
>
> copy tfal from 'C:\\tfal.txt' with delimiter '|'
>
> Te error message is: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "delimiter"
>
<snip>
>
> Does anyone had a trouble like this?, I don't understand what am I doing
> wrong. The version of the PGAdmin II I'm using is 1.4.12.
>
> Could anyone lend me a hand please, thanks,
>

I think the syntax your looking for is:

COPY tfal FROM '/tmp/foo' USING DELIMITERS '|';

At least that's how you'd do it in psql

Robert Treat

Re: About COPY

From
Tom Lane
Date:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9s_Repossi?= <andres.repossi@c1.pjn.gov.ar> writes:
> copy tfal from 'C:\\tfal.txt' with delimiter '|'
> Te error message is: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "delimiter"

> Does anyone had a trouble like this?, I don't understand what am I doing wr=
> ong.

Reading the wrong version of the documentation ;-).  You're evidently
trying to use 7.3 syntax with a pre-7.3 server.

            regards, tom lane