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Re: COPY error when \. char

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On 03/20/2018 04:32 AM, Nicolas Paris wrote:
Hello

I get an error when loading this kind of csv:

test.csv:
"hello ""world"""
"\."
"this
works
"
"this
\.
does
not"

table:
create table test (field text);

sql:
\copy test (field) from 'test.csv' CSV  quote '"' ESCAPE '"';
ERROR:  unterminated CSV quoted field
CONTEXTE : COPY test, line 7: ""this
"

Apparently, having the \.  string in a single line make it break.
Is this normal ?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/sql-copy.html
"Because backslash is not a special character in the CSV format, \., the end-of-data marker, could also appear as a data value. To avoid any misinterpretation, a \. data value appearing as a lone entry on a line is automatically quoted on output, and on input, if quoted, is not interpreted as the end-of-data marker. If you are loading a file created by another application that has a single unquoted column and might have a value of \., you might need to quote that value in the input file."


Thanks




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