ERROR: COPY quote must be a single ASCII character

Andrej Kastrin wrote:

||5354235||,||some text...|| ||1234567||,||some text...||
||1234568||,||some text...||

The sql statement I defined was:

COPY testtable FROM 'test.txt' WITH DELIMITER AS ',' CSV QUOTE AS
'||';

but the error:

ERROR: COPY quote must be a single ASCII character

I guess I'm stating the obvious here, but can you just change your
'||' quotes to a single character within the file?

Colin

The answer is simple no. I know I can to some preprocessing on input
files using awk, sed etc. but don't want to change the structure of the
file.

Colin Wetherbee wrote:

Andrej Kastrin wrote:

Colin Wetherbee wrote:

Andrej Kastrin wrote:

||5354235||,||some text...|| ||1234567||,||some text...||
||1234568||,||some text...||

The sql statement I defined was:

COPY testtable FROM 'test.txt' WITH DELIMITER AS ',' CSV QUOTE AS
'||';

but the error:

ERROR: COPY quote must be a single ASCII character

I guess I'm stating the obvious here, but can you just change your
'||' quotes to a single character within the file?

Colin

The answer is simple no. I know I can to some preprocessing on input
files using awk, sed etc. but don't want to change the structure of
the file.

OK, how about replacing '||' with '|' on a *copy* of your file, then?
It's not making that big a change to the structure, in any case.

Otherwise, you won't be able to do what it is that you wish to do. The
delimiter must be a single character, full stop.

brian

On Feb 8, 2008 9:06 AM, Andrej Kastrin <andrej.kastrin@siol.net> wrote:

The answer is simple no. I know I can to some preprocessing on input
files using awk, sed etc. but don't want to change the structure of the
file.

If the problem is that you have | characters in your data, then can
you change the || to \t (tabs) for this load? Or some other
character?