Re: COPY FROM and sequences

On Jan 8, 2007, at 9:13 PM, Matthew Terenzio wrote:

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> On Jan 8, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
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>> On Jan 8, 2007, at 19:20 , Matthew Terenzio wrote:
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>>> Is it true that you can't use COPY FROM to fill a table with a 
>>> SERIAL type column?
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>>> Or rather, how does one approach that situation most effectively?
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>> Could you give an example of what you're trying to do? What errors 
>> are you getting?
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> Just trying to fill a large number of rows in a table that uses a 
> serial for the primary key, from a comma delimited file
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>  invalid input syntax for integer: ""
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> I'm not quoting anything, just leaving the the delimited field empty 
> and expected a seuqence would fill the column as it would in an insert

Looks like WITH NULL AS '' might work



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>> Michael Glaesemann
>> grzm seespotcode net
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