Re: Finding error in long input file

On 7/9/24 17:46, Craig McIlwee wrote:
> Full error message from earlier in the thread:
> 
>  > psql:scripts/insert-addrs.sql:488: ERROR:  syntax error at or near ";"
>  > LINE 488: ...2832,1,default,'85250 Red House Rd','Paisley','OR','97636');
>  >                                                                      
>      ^
> 
> 
>     The error:
> 
>     LINE 488: ...2832,1,default,'85250 Red House Rd','Paisley','OR','97636')
> 
>     is giving you the line number and the data:
>     a) Navigate to that line number using whatever method Joe has for that.
>     b) Search for '85250 Red House Rd'.
> 
> 
> 
> The input file is 488 lines (presumably, since Rich said the file should 
> insert 488 rows).  It seems like too much of a coincidence that the last 
> character of the last line is really the error.  My guess is that there 

This assumes that there where only INSERT lines and that each INSERT was 
only one line. I have bit by those assumptions before, hence my 
suggestion to actually find line 488.

> is an unmatched character, perhaps a parenthesis, that is throwing off 
> the parser because it doesn't expect the statement to terminate yet.  
> Maybe that unmatched char really is on the last line, but '85250 Red 
> House Rd' doesn't seem like the issue.  I don't know anything about the 
> joe editor, but I'd hope that any decent editor with syntax highlighting 
> would make it apparent where things went awry.
> 
> Craig

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Adrian Klaver
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