Geoffrey Wossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 05 February 2003 01:12 pm, Tom Lane wrote: >> This smells to me like it could be a newline-formatting problem (COPY is >> pretty picky about its newlines).
> [ Nope ] Drat, another perfectly good theory down the drain. > Bjoern suggested I add "-d" or "-D" to the pg_dump/pg_dumpall command line, > which worked flawlessly, although recreating the database was a bit slow. Hm. The -d business used to be a standard workaround for some known limitations of COPY, but I was of the opinion that we'd fixed the last of them as of 7.3. If you found -d necessary even with 7.3.x pg_dump then I'd like to see the details. The table definition (as dumped by pg_dump) and the first few lines of COPY data from the dump would be useful info to start with... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org