Is there a simple (unix) command I can run on text files to convert
cr/lf to lf? The way I did it seemed pretty ass-backward to me (not to
mention time consuming).
-Brice
Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Brice Ruth <brice@webprojkt.com> writes:
> > Here's my latest tactic: I'm guessing that the data 'corruption' has
> > something to do with the way the data was exported from the original
> > database by the third party ... probably something with the cr/lf
> > linebreaks or something to that effect (the data field in question
> > happens to be the last field in a line in the data file).
>
> Ooooh ... the queries you were showing us made it look like the column
> was not the last one, so I hadn't thought of that. Almost certainly,
> your extra character is a CR. Postgres expects plain LF as newline in
> COPY data files; if the newlines are actually CR/LF then the CRs will
> be taken as part of the last data field.
>
> regards, tom lane
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Brice Ruth
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