I recently upgraded to 7.1.3.  I was experimenting with a script to 
export data from FoxPro into an SQL file and multiple data files.  The 
SQL file creates the tables, indexes, foreign keys, etc, and calls the 
COPY command to load the data from the appropriate data files.

It appears, and I could easily be mistaken, that the COPY command does 
not allow NULLs into a timestamp field, even though the field is defined 
to accept nulls.  Actually, it appears that the behavior of the COPY 
command changed as I believe it would accept nulls in the prior release 
7.1.2.

In any case, I'm using the COPY command WITH NULL AS '^N'. And the 
datafile contains ^N in timestamp fields that could be NULL, but the 
command fails with an invalid timestamp error, referencing the first 
line that contains the '^N' null sequence.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Dwayne




Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:39:49 -0400
"P. Dwayne Miller" <dmiller@espgroup.net>
COPY command WITH NULLs bug?
"P. Dwayne Miller" <dmiller@espgroup.net> writes:
> It appears, and I could easily be mistaken, that the COPY command does 
> not allow NULLs into a timestamp field, even though the field is defined 
> to accept nulls.

Not sure what your problem is, but that's not it.  Perhaps you've got a
problem with stray carriage returns (\r\n instead of \n), or what you
have in the file isn't actually equal to what you specified as the WITH
NULL string, or something else.

			regards, tom lane

Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:22:10 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: COPY command WITH NULLs bug? 