Re: [DOCS] COPY options

2016-04-29 Thread Andrei M. Eichler
Thanks for the replies, I'm using postgres since 8.3 and didn't notice at the time of 9.0 release the change in the syntax, as the old syntax still works, every time I read the current documentation I didn't notice that I was using it wrong. I agree with Tom Lane about leaving it alone. Another q

Re: [DOCS] COPY options

2016-04-29 Thread Tom Lane
Kevin Grittner writes: > It's not really a question of whether we should go back to > documenting the deprecated syntax, but whether (and when) support > for it should finally be ripped out. It was last documented in 8.4. We still document, and support, not only the pre-9.0 COPY syntax but also

Re: [DOCS] COPY options

2016-04-29 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Andrei M. Eichler wrote: > Following the documentation, I wrote this COPY FROM command: > > COPY test_copy FROM '/mnt/disk1/files/test_file.csv' with csv header > delimiter ';' force_null date_column, date_column2, date_column3, > date_column4, date_column5 encod

Re: [DOCS] COPY options

2016-04-29 Thread Tom Lane
"Andrei M. Eichler" writes: > Following the documentation, I wrote this COPY FROM command: > COPY test_copy FROM '/mnt/disk1/files/test_file.csv' with csv header > delimiter ';' force_null date_column, date_column2, date_column3, > date_column4, date_column5 encoding 'latin1'; Which part of the

Re: [DOCS] COPY options

2016-04-29 Thread Andrei M. Eichler
Hi, thanks for the wiki link. I'm using Postgrees 9.5.2, running on Debian 8.4 I have a csv file with all columns quoted, even null values. Following the documentation, I wrote this COPY FROM command: COPY test_copy FROM '/mnt/disk1/files/test_file.csv' with csv header delimiter ';' force_null

Re: [DOCS] COPY options

2016-04-28 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Andrei M. Eichler wrote: > when one tries to use it as it is from the docs, one gets the following > results: > ERROR: syntax error at or near "force_null" Works for me. Please copy/paste the actual command and the actual, complete error message. https://wiki

[DOCS] COPY options

2016-04-28 Thread Andrei M. Eichler
Hi everyone, In the documentation of COPY options, it lists the following options with a "_" in it's name: FORCE_QUOTE FORCE_NOT_NULL FORCE_NULL But when one tries to use it as it is from the docs, one gets the following results: ERROR: syntax error at or near "force_null" Shouldn't it be with