On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 16:47:55 +0800,
  Robert Ngo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> copy swpparm from stdin using delimiters ';';
> 
> exampaper;02;1;Bahasa Melayu;M;A;2002-11-27;system;; 
> 
> \.
> 
> why does the above command return a error message

It looks like the column that is associated with the empty field has a
type of date. The empty string is not a valid date. If you want a NULL
date then you need to use \N instead of an empty string.

> 
> 
> ERROR:  copy: line 1, Bad date external representation ''
> PQendcopy: resetting connection
> 

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