[ADMIN] Trouble w/ COPY command

[Wells Oliver]

I have CSV files blowing up because they have double quotes around numeric
values: " 1.34" yields ERROR: invalid input syntax for type numeric: "
1.34"

And occasionally these are empty, and you see invalid syntax for type
numeric: " "

Are there flags I can pass to COPY to avoid this? There are properly quoted
string values elsewhere in the final, so I'm reticent to strip out double
quote characters or anything.

Thank you.

[Tom Lane]

Post by Wells Oliver
I have CSV files blowing up because they have double quotes around numeric
values: " 1.34" yields ERROR: invalid input syntax for type numeric: "
1.34"

Is that an exact copy of the error message? Because there are double
quotes in that error message's text; what you are showing does not
suggest that they are part of the data value. I'm wondering about
non-visible characters myself.

Post by Wells Oliver
And occasionally these are empty, and you see invalid syntax for type
numeric: " "

Well, that you're going to have to do something else about. Possibly
you could treat the empty string as null? (See the 'null string'
option to COPY.)

regards, tom lane