COPY FROM stdin works only from a console ... and PGAdmin is not a console but a window environment, so that does not work ! I had the PG Admin explaining the very same things, before. Cheers, L@u The Computing Froggy ----- Message d'origine ---- De : Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> À : senges <csengstock@xxxxxxxxx> Cc : pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Envoyé le : Lundi, 5 Mars 2007, 10h22mn 22s Objet : Re: [GENERAL] COPY form stdin and file "senges" <csengstock@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > when untaring a pg_dumped tar file the data gets populated like this: > ----------------- > COPY mytable (id, attr1, attr2) FROM stdin; > \. > copy mytable (id, attr1, attr2) from '$$PATH$$/2387.dat' ; > ----------------- Not here ... I only see 'FROM stdin' cases. Please provide a test case, and mention which PG version you are dealing with. > The ".\" throws an error within the pgadmin sql query window: > ERROR: syntax error at or near "\" at character You'd need to complain to the pgadmin people about that. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/ ___________________________________________________________________________ Découvrez une nouvelle façon d'obtenir des réponses à toutes vos questions ! Profitez des connaissances, des opinions et des expériences des internautes sur Yahoo! Questions/Réponses http://fr.answers.yahoo.com ___________________________________________________________________________ Découvrez une nouvelle façon d'obtenir des réponses à toutes vos questions ! Profitez des connaissances, des opinions et des expériences des internautes sur Yahoo! Questions/Réponses http://fr.answers.yahoo.com