On Sunday, June 25, 2017 11:02:41 PM EDT Alain Toussaint wrote: > > Narrowing down the entire file to a small problem region and posting a > > self-contained example, > > The url here contain the set of xml records from a publication I > worked on many years ago: > > https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21833294?report=xml&format=text > > The particularly problematic region of the xml content is this: > > <CommentsCorrectionsList> > <CommentsCorrections RefType="Cites"> > <RefSource>Neuroreport. 2000 Sep > 11;11(13):2969-72</RefSource> <PMID Version="1">11006976</PMID> > </CommentsCorrections> > <CommentsCorrections RefType="Cites"> > <RefSource>J Neurosci. 2005 May > 25;25(21):5148-58</RefSource> <PMID Version="1">15917455</PMID> > </CommentsCorrections> > <CommentsCorrections RefType="Cites"> > <RefSource>Neuroimage. 2003 Dec;20(4):1944-54</RefSource> > <PMID Version="1">14683700</PMID> > </CommentsCorrections> > > There is more of these type of comments in an given citation. > > > or at least providing the error messages and > > content, might help elicit good responses. > > here it is: > > ERROR: syntax error at or near "44" > LINE 1: 44(1):37-43</RefSources> This string does not appear in your link above. Please match your example data with your error message. > > the command I used is this one: > > echo "INSERT INTO samples (xmldata) VALUES $(cat > /srv/pgsql/pubmed/medline17n0001.xml)" | /usr/bin/psql medline > 1>/dev/null 2>error.log I'm going to go out on a limb and assume the problem is unescaped quote characters, or some other escape/quote problem. Hard to say though without having the right data to look at. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general