Re: Bulk COPY end of copy delimiter

Your assumption is correct.  The data was generated out of a DB2 database,
and uses commas as field delimiters.

Thank you for the workaround,
--- Steve
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Hi,

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Steven Rosenstein wrote:

>
>
>
>
> Today while trying to do a bulk COPY of data into a table, the process
> aborted with the following error message:
>
> ERROR: end-of-copy marker corrupt
> CONTEXT: COPY tbl_logged_event, line 178519: "606447014,1492,2005-02-24
> 03:16:14,2005-02-23 20:27:48,win_applog,,error,adsmclientservice,nt
> author..."
>
> Googling the error, we found reference to the '\.' (backslash-period)
being
> an "end-of-copy marker".  Unfortunately, our data contains the
> backslash-period character sequence.  Is there any know fix or workaround
> for this condition?

Any sequence \. in COPY input data should be escaped as \\. If this data
was generated by pg_dump then its a problem, but I haven't seen any other
reports of this. Can I assume that you've generated the data for bulk load
yourself? If so, there is discussion of escaping characters here:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/sql-copy.html.

Gavin

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