On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 2:45 PM, David Blomstrom <david.blomst...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I tried to import a CSV file into a PostgreSQL table using pgAdmin III. I
> got an error message: "extra data after last column."
>
>
> All my spreadsheets have an "end of data" column that has /r/n in each
> cell. When I import a CSV file into a MySQL table, everything beyond /r/n
> is ignored. Is there some way to tell PostgreSQL to stop at /r/n?
>

How does it know when to stop ignoring and start the next record?

You could write a little awk or perl script to give the PROGRAM option of
copy, but you can't do that within pgAdmin.

Cheers,

Jeff

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