Re: Error at dynamic generated copy...

On 08/12/2016 07:11 AM, Edmundo Robles wrote:
> Hi!
>  I hope you could help me...
> I  tried to generate the next copy instruction  in a function:
>
> copy tablefoo (id_foo, foo_name, foo_lastname, foo_age) FROM stdin
>  DELIMITER as  '|' ;
> 12060157|John|Doe|33
> \.
>
>
> ** The commands to generate  the copy are:
>     CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION insert_tablefoo(id integer, name varchar,
> lastname varchar, age integer)
>
>     ... declarations ...
>
>
>     qry=format('copy tablefoo (id_foo, foo_name, foo_lastname, foo_age)
> FROM stdin  DELIMITER as  '||chr(39) || '|' || chr(39) || ';' || chr(13)
> ||'%s|%s|%s|%s' || chr(13) || '\.',id,name,lastname,age);
>
>    execute(qry);
>
>
>    ... more declarations
>    end <- end function, returns  an integer.
>
>
> ** then,  i  call the function:
>     select insert_tablefoo(12321,'John','Doe',33);
>
> **and get the next error:
>
> ERROR:  syntax error at or near "12321"
> LINE 2: 12321|John|Doe|33
>
> ********** Error **********
>
>
> after many tests, the problem is concatenate the newline, because  if
>  the instruction generated is copied to a file and insert manually the
> newline the query works well.
>
> i tried  with chr(10),  '\n', '\r', split  the qry string ( execute
> qry_copy || E'\\n' || qry_data || E'\\n\\.')
> but always get the same error  :(
>
>
>
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "12321"
> SQL state: 42601
>
>
>
>
> **  By the way, i tried to replace an insert  with copy  because  the
> insert takes  more than 3 minutes to insert a single record.

The above seems to be the real problem.

Can you describe more what you are doing when you INSERT?

>
>
> Regards and thanks in advance.


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