avalon78 geek <avalon78.gr@gmail.com> writes:
> i issue the following sql command
> COPY cust
> FROM 'C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.1\customers.txt'
> WITH DELIMITER ';' ;
> and i get an error
> ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "13"
> SQL state: 22P02
That looks like you have a Unicode BOM marker at the start of the file.
There are some (pretty broken IMO) Windows editors that add such behind
your back in order to mark a text file as being text ... of course, it's
not plain text anymore, and BOM is useless/illegal in UTF-8 anyway, but
standards compliance was never Microsoft's strong suit.
Save the file with some other editor.
regards, tom lane