It seems to me that you should escape this quote, since you use the same single quotes to surround your file path, hence the sql interpreter thinks you are still inside a string when you hit enter. What happens if you try this:

COPY 120 OFFSET 2 RECORDS INTO "observations_to_score1" FROM 'C:\tmp\sachin's_data_with_requested_column_03_03_2016.csv' USING DELIMITERS ',', '\n', '"' LOCKED;

On 22-03-16 19:25, Gennadiy wrote:

Hello,

I am trying to load data from a text file that has single quote character in its name into a table:

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"C:\Program Files\MonetDB\MonetDB5\mclient.bat" --port=50000 --user=monetdb

password: Welcome to mclient, the MonetDB/SQL interactive terminal (Jul2015-SP2) Database: MonetDB v11.21.13 (Jul2015-SP2), 'soft10_20160318_172621' Type \q to quit, ? for a list of available commands auto commit mode: on sql> sql> sql>COPY 120 OFFSET 2 RECORDS INTO "observations_to_score1" FROM 'C:\tmp\sachin's_data_with_requested_column_03_03_2016.csv' USING DELIMITERS ',', '\n', '"' LOCKED; more> more>

Everything works fine if there is no single quote character in the name of the file:

sql>COPY 120 OFFSET 2 RECORDS INTO "observations_to_score1" FROM 'C:\tmp\sachins_data_with_requested_column_03_03_2016.csv' USING DELIMITERS ',', '\n', '"' LOCKED; 120 affected rows (12.3s)

I was trying to precede the single quote character by a \ (backslash) or to double it, but it still did not work:

sql>COPY 120 OFFSET 2 RECORDS INTO "observations_to_score1" FROM 'C:\tmp\sachin's_data_with_requested_column_03_03_2016.csv' USING DELIMITERS ',', '\n', '"' LOCKED; could not open file 'C:\tmp\sachin's_data_with_requested_column_03_03_2016.csv': No such file or directory

sql>COPY 120 OFFSET 2 RECORDS INTO "observations_to_score1" FROM 'C:\tmp\sachin''s_data_with_requested_column_03_03_2016.csv' USING DELIMITERS ',', '\n', '"' LOCKED; could not open file 'C:\tmp\sachin's_data_with_requested_column_03_03_2016.csv': No such file or directory

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dir c:\tmp\sa*.csv

Volume in drive C is S3A9506D003 Volume Serial Number is 00B9-C775

Directory of c:\tmp

2016-03-18 17:12 144,202 sachin's_data_with_requested_column_03_03_2016.csv 2016-03-18 17:12 144,202 sachins_data_with_requested_column_03_03_2016.csv 2 File(s) 288,404 bytes 0 Dir(s) 377,532,665,856 bytes free

I am using the following version of MonetDB:

# MonetDB 5 server v11.21.13 "Jul2015-SP2" # Serving database 'soft10_20160318_172621', using 4 threads # Compiled for x86_64-pc-winnt/64bit with 64bit OIDs dynamically linked # Found 3.799 GiB available main-memory. # Copyright (c) 1993-July 2008 CWI. # Copyright (c) August 2008-2015 MonetDB B.V., all rights reserved # Visit http://www.monetdb.org/ for further information # Listening for connection requests on mapi:monetdb://127.0.0.1:50000/ # Start processing logs sql/sql_logs version 52200 # Start reading the write-ahead log 'sql_logs\sql\log.11' # Finished reading the write-ahead log 'sql_logs\sql\log.11' # Finished processing logs sql/sql_logs # MonetDB/SQL module loaded Thank you,