On 24 Mar 2014, at 5:32, Rajeev rastogi <rajeev.rast...@huawei.com> wrote:

> On 21st March 2014, Ashmita Jain Wrote:
>  
> >It is taking date as an empty string.
> >Try defining the empty field as ā€˜\N’ in your source file.
>  
> ā€˜\N’ in copy source file always results into an empty string (unless 
> something written in new line), which is correct only.
> So COPY from such source file will always fail except for the case if the 
> column data-type is string.

You appear to be confusing \N with \n. Those are very different escape codes; 
the second means new line, while the first means NULL.

Alban Hertroys
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