Re: Unable to use COPY..FROM with NULL numeric fields

That changed the error message to :

megasys=# COPY acct FROM '/home/megasys/acct.dmp.new' USING DELIMITERS
'\t' WITH NULL AS '\\N';
ERROR:  copy: line 1, Bad numeric input format ''

Thanks
Nikh Nath

-----Original Message-----
From: eric soroos [mailto:eric-psql@soroos.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 5:02 PM
To: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Unable to use COPY..FROM with NULL numeric fields


On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:34:55 -0800 in message
<E936C9C6709EF340B2B00D779FD59CF703BE2D2D@nowexchange.HANKEYINVESTMENTS.
COM>, "Nikh Nath" <nnath@westlakefinancial.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use the following command to import a file into pgsql.
>
>     COPY acct FROM '/home/megasys/acct.dmp.new' USING DELIMITERS
'\t'
> WITH NULL AS '\N';
>
> I keep getting this error.
>
> ERROR:  copy: line 1, Bad numeric input format '\N'
>

Try:

    COPY acct FROM '/home/megasys/acct.dmp.new' USING DELIMITERS
'\t' WITH NULL AS '\\N';

eric



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