Kshirsagar, Swanand wrote: > I am using Postgres version 8.3.17 on one of my database server. I have received a .sql dump file from > my client. Which is supposed to be taken from a Postgres 8.3.7 db. Now, I have created an empty > database and I am trying to restore the .sql file with command psql command. After few GBs of > restoration, I am getting an error - > > ALTER TABLE > SET > SET > ERROR: invalid input syntax for type timestamp: "" > CONTEXT: COPY job_step_history, line 16211941, column start_time: "" > > I tried printing this line no - 16211941 from the .sql dump file with command - sed -n "16211941 p" > <filename.sql> . The row has values - > > 17338525 1 309 6 205636 2009-09-04 22:02:46.199 1 2009-09-04 > 22:02:46.198 1 \N > > What can be the possible cause for this error? Please help. The table definition plays an important role in this. Could you produce a copy of the SQL file and delete everything except for the table in question and delete all but a few COPY input rows that demonstrate the problem? Send that as an attachment, then maybe we can see why it fails. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
