>ERROR: invalid input syntax for type numeric: "$1.00" >CONTEXT: COPY employee, line 2, column hourly_rate: "$1.00"
Try changing the format of the column from currency to numeric BEFORE exporting.
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 2:22 PM stan <stanb@panix.com> wrote:
I am trying to import some data from spreadsheets. Included in the data sets are US monetary values. These appear in the CSV file, like this: $1.00 The column is defined like this: NUMERIC(5,2) NOT NULL. When I try to import this data using the \copy functionality, i get the following error;
stan@smokey:~/pm_db/live_data$ psql < import_employee.sql ERROR: invalid input syntax for type numeric: "$1.00" CONTEXT: COPY employee, line 2, column hourly_rate: "$1.00"
How can I work around this?
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