On 15 Sep 2011, at 3:42, Rich Shepard wrote: > Line 47475 is below the last line with content in the file. Line 47363 > contains: > > 96-A000890 SC 1996-04-23 Conductance, Specific 394 > uS/cm t \N \N \N > > (which is wrapped here, but not in the emacs buffer). There are 10 columns, > which is how many there should be. When I go to the end of the line there's > no space or other extraneous character. The column 'quant' contains the > number 394. While that's an integer, the column domain is real and psql > doesn't complain about other whole numbers in that column. > > Please help me understand what the error message and context are telling > me because I just don't see it. The text in the error is a tab character, so maybe you have an extra tab somewhere? If not, perhaps the error is about the line after the one you showed us. If there isn't a terminator (\.) there, then reading the first 4 columns would probably succeed; they are type text from the looks of it, so ' ' (tab) is a valid character for those fields, but not for the real type column after those. Alban Hertroys -- The scale of a problem often equals the size of an ego. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
