Liz-
Without looking at a chunk of the datafile it is hard to tell what may be
wrong, but here are a copy of ideas:
If you haven't already looked here, look at this page in the docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?sql-copy.html
try manually inserting a few rows into your table, and then do a dump:
pg_dump database_name >test.out
Then take a look at test.out- After the object creation sections, it will
have a section where it uses the copy command to insert the rows, and you
can use this to see what sort of format copy expects.
-Nick
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Elizabeth O'Neill
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 1:38 PM
> To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: [ADMIN] Importing large data files into PostgreSQL
>
>
> Hi i hope some one can help i'm new to PostgreSQL i have been trying to
> load data into a table using the "\Copy" function. All the records
> (approx. 15,000) will go into the table but the it doesn't seem to
> reconise the delimiters because the data is randomly split over the
> columns in the table.
>
> I have tried changing the size of the columns, making sure the
> delimiters are correct, changing the delimiters to "," instead of
> "<TAB>", inserting a small section of the data and changing the
> data-types of the columns from 'varchar' to 'char' but none of this
> makes a difference
>
> Does anyone know what may be wrong or a better way to import large
> chunks of data.
>
> Please help before i go bald from pulling my hair out
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Liz
>
>
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