On Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 10:39 Rich Shepard <rshepard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 29 Oct 2020, Rich Shepard wrote:
> psql:organizations.sql:1926: ERROR: syntax error at or near ";"
> LINE 1925: ...m',null,'Port','Opportunity',null);
^
> I'm not seeing why that's an error. All previous rows terminate with a comma
> and I don't know where else to look for the reason. What am I missing
> seeing?
Rob/Paul/David/Tom/Adrian:
Found the problem in line 26 of 1925 rows: a non-null column had 'null'
entered rather than one of the allowed values. That row was in the original
database and I've no idea when I might have changed that.
Why postgres didn't highlight that until I had only a 50-line .sql file I
don't know. But, when bifircating the original file into smaller pieces and
I got down to 50 lines postgres showed me exactly what the error was:
psql:orgs-1.sql:50: ERROR: null value in column "industry" violates
not-null constraint.
Does this happen in newer versions than the 12.2 installed here?
I think you found a second problem...covered up by the first, which prevented the insert from even progressing to the point where a constraint violation could be encountered. I.e., your original error is syntax.
David J.
