On Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 10:39 Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2020, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > psql:organizations.sql:1926: ERROR: syntax error at or near ";" > > LINE 1925: ...m',null,'Port','Opportunity',null); > ^ > > I'm not seeing why that's an error. All previous rows terminate with a > comma > > and I don't know where else to look for the reason. What am I missing > > seeing? > > Rob/Paul/David/Tom/Adrian: > > Found the problem in line 26 of 1925 rows: a non-null column had 'null' > entered rather than one of the allowed values. That row was in the original > database and I've no idea when I might have changed that. > > Why postgres didn't highlight that until I had only a 50-line .sql file I > don't know. But, when bifircating the original file into smaller pieces and > I got down to 50 lines postgres showed me exactly what the error was: > > psql:orgs-1.sql:50: ERROR: null value in column "industry" violates > not-null constraint. > > Does this happen in newer versions than the 12.2 installed here? > I think you found a second problem...covered up by the first, which prevented the insert from even progressing to the point where a constraint violation could be encountered. I.e., your original error is syntax. David J.
