||You might want to try escaping the single quotes in your data. Either by 
doubling them up or switching double quotes for dollar-quoted strings.||

It's not my data. That's why I'm importing it.
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On Tuesday, May 11th, 2021 at 12:16 PM, richard coleman 
<rcoleman.ascen...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Blake,
>
> You might want to try escaping the single quotes in your data. Either by 
> doubling them up or switching double quotes for dollar-quoted strings.
>
> Just a thought,
>
> rik.
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 3:02 PM dsbw <d...@protonmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Trying to import data, tab-delimited but unfortunately with quotes around 
>> string fields anyway. Like:
>>
>> 1234<tab>"JOHN"<tab>"SMITH"<tab>5678
>>
>> PGAdmin import fails when the quoted value contains a single quote:
>>
>> 1234<tab>"EMPLOYEES'"<tab>"CREDIT UNION"<tab>5678
>>
>> So the trailing quote (for possessive) after "EMPLOYEES" trips it up. Seems 
>> like, if one is inside a set of double-quotes, any single quotes should be 
>> ignored? (I know CSV is multiply and contradictorily defined, but still.)
>>
>> ===Blake===

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