El día Tuesday, June 04, 2019 a las 07:20:54PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: > El día Tuesday, June 04, 2019 a las 05:56:49PM +0100, Andrew Gierth escribió: > > > If you use COPY ... WITH DELIMITER '|' (i.e. text mode, not CSV mode) > > then the \| is accepted as being a literal | and the unescaped | is > > treated as a delimiter. What is the point of the substitutions? > > ... > I will provide tomorrow the exact input line, the exact COPY command and > the error. It works exactly as Andrew states. My error was not caused by treating the '|' of '\|' as DELIMITER, but by not having WITH (NULL '' ...) in the COPY cmd. I misinterpreted the error message as not matching number of columns. Sorry for the noise. Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@xxxxxxxxxxx, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub May, 9: Спаси́бо освободители! Thank you very much, Russian liberators!