Thread: PostgreSQL: copying data from file

Greetings,

great thanks to Paul Ramsey, Mr. Ramaswamy, Ulf Mehlig and
Peter Mount for their useful advices!

Well, now I have the following problem: base exported from
VFoxPro  (with delimiters '|') contains russian characters
and command 'copy' produces the error:

// unreadable symbols are russian letters
rscexamdb=> copy exam with oids from '/opt2/home3/auricvision/db.txt'
using delimiters '|';
WARN:pg_atoi: error in "й РПЕЛ НЯМНБМШЛ РХОЮЛ ХМБЕЯРХЖХНММШУ
ОПНДСЙРНБ ПШМЙЮ ЖЕММШУ АСЛЮЦ НРМНЯЪРЯЪ:": can't parse "й
РПЕЛ НЯМНБМШЛ РХОЮЛ ХМБЕЯРХЖХНММШУ ОПНДСЙРНБ
ПШМЙЮ ЖЕММШУ АСЛЮЦ НРМНЯЪРЯЪ:"
rscexamdb=>

exam is table with fields char(1024), char(100), char(100),
char(100),  char(100), int,  int, int,  int, int, int and I
can't imagine  why the  error is  in  'pg_atoi'  function -
it seems  to be postgres  tryes to convert  first string of
data file to integer  (althrouh first field in the table is
char(1024))!

What should  I do with  it?  May be  I should  use copy the
file as binary one?

P.S.: command '\copy' (\copy exam from db.txt) in psql says
 'Broken pipe.' and just quits.

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Hello!

On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Dmitry Iv Popov wrote:
> Well, now I have the following problem: base exported from
> VFoxPro  (with delimiters '|') contains russian characters
> and command 'copy' produces the error:
>
> // unreadable symbols are russian letters
> rscexamdb=> copy exam with oids from '/opt2/home3/auricvision/db.txt'
> using delimiters '|';
> WARN:pg_atoi: error in "й РПЕЛ НЯМНБМШЛ РХОЮЛ ХМБЕЯРХЖХНММШУ
> ОПНДСЙРНБ ПШМЙЮ ЖЕММШУ АСЛЮЦ НРМНЯЪРЯЪ:": can't parse "й
> РПЕЛ НЯМНБМШЛ РХОЮЛ ХМБЕЯРХЖХНММШУ ОПНДСЙРНБ
> ПШМЙЮ ЖЕММШУ АСЛЮЦ НРМНЯЪРЯЪ:"
> rscexamdb=>

   Looks strange. I am using postgres with russian with great success:

COPY positions FROM stdin USING DELIMITERS '|';
1|ЯБХМХМЮ|1|"5 days"|15|1|A
2|ЦНБЪДХМЮ|1|"5 days"|15|2|A
3|ЛНКНЙН|2|"5 days"|15|3|A
4|ЬНЙНКЮД|4|"5 days"|15|4|A
5|ОЕКЭЛЕМХ|1|"5 days"|15|5|A
\.

   This work fine, and I have never experienced any problem with "foreign"
letters.

Oleg.
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