On Thursday, September 15, 2011 6:24:42 am Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011, Alban Hertroys wrote: > > Each row terminates with a \n; when the cursor is at the row end and I > press ctrl-f (move one character forward), the cursor is at the beginning > of the next line. > > I'm confused about your statement that a tab is not valid for the 'real' > column. There are tabs between that column and adjacent ones, but no tabs > within any text column (only one of which has multiple strings). > > Could the error be far from the reported line 47363 but that's where > psql stopped? I've not been able to think of a way to check the entire > file for an extra tab as the length of each column's content varies. > > Still perplexed, In your editing of the file did you happen to edit out the \. that is at the end of the COPY data? > > Rich -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general