Re: Problem with COPY

Brauner Oliveira <brauner.rno@gmail.com> writes:
> ERROR: value too long for type character varying(8)
> SQL state: 22001
> Context: COPY $tablename, line 1, column $colum_name: "69900900"

Is that the first field of the first line?

> The file is well formatted and Encoded in UTF-8:

I'm suspicious that you prepared the file in some text editor that
"helpfully" inserted an invisible BOM (byte order mark) character at the
start of the file.  Windows editors in particular seem to think this is
a good idea.

            regards, tom lane