I've encountered this before, psql gives me a syntax error for no clear reason. It's allways on the first character of a sql file.
I think that there must be some strange character code at the first position, maybe it is because i share a ntfs partition with the windows installation on my laptop and move files around.
I only editted this file with gedit, pgAdmin and vim on ubuntu lucid desktop.
Here's the error:
postgres=# \i db02-vulling.sql
psql:db02-vulling.sql:1: ERROR:Â syntax error at or near "ïbegin"
LINE 1: ïbegin;
ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ ^
INSERT 0 10100
INSERT 0 101
INSERT 0 100
psql:db02-vulling.sql:12: WARNING:Â there is no transaction in progress
COMMIT
postgres=#
The file is in the attachment, both gzipped and as-is.
I hope someone can reproduce this.
(the code itself makes no sense but that's not relevant here)
WBL
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"Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it." -- George Bernard Shaw
ïbegin; insert into a (val, description) select generate_series(100,200), 'dit is nummer '||generate_series(1,100); insert into c (val) select generate_series(200,300); insert into b (aid, cid) select generate_series(1,100), generate_series(1,100); commit;
Attachment:
db02-vulling.sql.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data
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