On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:22:48 -0500 Lew <lew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I went to the docs for COPY and they say, > > The default is \N (backslash-N) in text mode, and a empty value > > with no quotes in CSV mode. > That "with no quotes" phrase caught my attention. > Try eliminating the double quotes in the CSV file. "Wannabe" NULL > would then be ,, (consecutive commas) > in the CSV. From the docs, you don't even need the "NULL AS" > clause in your COPY statement. Exactly what I did because fortunately there weren't too many chances of weird stuff in 2000 records (sed -e 's/,""/,/g'). Anyway with NULL AS '' and without it I can't still import NULL without pre-processing. I thought it may be missing total support of UTF-8 or if I did something wrong or it is actually a "feature". thx -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/