But the data was dumped with a windows version pg_dump. Or do know wrong that pgadmin3 uses a boundled version of pg_dump (installed on the client)? BTW after running unix2dos (on cygwin) the error message is the same... :( -- Csaba Együd -----Original Message----- From: Jaime Casanova [mailto:systemguards@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 5:50 PM To: Együd Csaba Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Syntax Error in COPY On 11/25/05, Együd Csaba <csegyud@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Source machine: FC4 + Pg8.0.3 (dumped out from) Target machine: WinXP > SP2. + Pg8.0.0 (trying to dump in) The maessage : "ERROR: syntax > error at or near "DE" at character 144" > ok. in FC4 execute unix2dos dumped_file.sql then try again to load the data in windows -- regards, Jaime Casanova (DBA: DataBase Aniquilator ;) -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.7/182 - Release Date: 2005.11.24.