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Re: Problem with COPY in 8.0.3

Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> — 2005-10-12T18:08:20Z

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 13:52 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Oliver Elphick <olly@bray-healthcare.com> writes:
> > Pg 8.0.3 (Debian package) on AMD64, linux 2.6.12
> > I am importing a table using COPY.  The data is tab-delimited.  COPY
> > seems to be putting the data for one field into the preceding field,
> > which should contain the empty string.
> 
> Can't reproduce that here, under either 8.0 or CVS tip.  Are you sure
> you aren't making some silly mistake, like copying from the wrong file?

No.  This is a regular (nightly) scripted dump, which drops and rebuilds
the entire database, and the right data is going into the file (I only
showed one line out of 300+).  But in this particular case, the column
order was wrong.  I should add that the table inherits from another one,
but the swapped columns are a long way into the extra columns specific
to this table.

I've changed the script to fix it, so its not a big issue for me, but I
first noticed it several days ago, so it's not a one off occurrence.

Oliver
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