Re: Copy from problem

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 18:54, Eduardo Vázquez Rodríguez wrote:
> When I issue the following command
> copy public."Example" from '/home/postgres/abc.txt';
>
> The following error appears
>
> ERROR:  missing data for column "Email"
> CONTEXT:  COPY Prueba, line 2: "Jessie Rodriguez    Santa Anna "
>
> My question is how can I insert a null value into the field email,and that
> copy from continue copying the next lines?

Null values are represented by \N (or by some other string specified in
the COPY command - see its documentation).

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