Re: Numeric and CSV under 8.0.1 ?

Stef:   Why is iuserid numeric?  Are you going to do any math on the field?  
If not, change it to varchar.  In the long run you'll be happier.


Stef wrote:

>Hello Everyone,
>    Currently, here at work, I am doing the whole
>'advocacy' part of postgreSQL. It's not really hard to
>do, as the other database's are MySQL and Sybase ;)
>
>    There is obviously a whole spat of data munging
>going on in the background, and I noticed that psql in
>8.0.1 now accepts CSV ! Great. 
>
>    Except, it doesn't really appear to be 100% there.
>Numeric's wrapped in '...' don't want to appear to go in.
>Is this a 'known problem' ?
>
>                    Table "public.visitor_main"
>      Column      |         Type         |          Modifiers           
>------------------+----------------------+------------------------------
> iuserid          | numeric(12,0)        | not null
> firstname        | character(25)        | not null
> lastname         | character(25)        | not null
>
>
>Sample Data line
>'3236','Alonzo','Peter'
>
>ERROR:  invalid input syntax for type numeric: "'3236'"
>CONTEXT:  COPY visitor_main, line 1, column iuserid: "'3236'"
>
>
>    Thoughts ?
>    Regards
>    Steph
>  
>