[MonetDB-users] Copy Into problem
Hi there,
I'm trying to use the copy into with csv file (utf-8 encoded) and I encounter some problem. The create statement is:
CREATE TABLE "sa3e7e9f4d666429ea2c5bb61a532f5b9" ("A" DATE ,"B" VARCHAR (22) ,"C" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"D" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"E" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"F" DECIMAL (12, 5) )
The copy into statement is:
COPY INTO "sa3e7e9f4d666429ea2c5bb61a532f5b9" FROM 'T:\Prism\Applications\Desktop\PrismDesktop\bin\Debug\LocalRepository\ImportedCSV\ImportedCSV0.csv' USING DELIMITERS '|' NULL AS 'A56A9FC261A143a48F6019F602ABF409';
And csv is attached.
Any advice?!?!?!
tnx,
Alfred. http://www.nabble.com/file/p21200441/ImportedCSV0.csv ImportedCSV0.csv
Hi Alfred,
On 29-12-2008 00:58:40 -0800, Alfred Nordman wrote:
I'm trying to use the copy into with csv file (utf-8 encoded) and I encounter some problem. The create statement is:
CREATE TABLE "sa3e7e9f4d666429ea2c5bb61a532f5b9" ("A" DATE ,"B" VARCHAR (22) ,"C" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"D" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"E" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"F" DECIMAL (12, 5) )
The copy into statement is:
COPY INTO "sa3e7e9f4d666429ea2c5bb61a532f5b9" FROM 'T:\Prism\Applications\Desktop\PrismDesktop\bin\Debug\LocalRepository\ImportedCSV\ImportedCSV0.csv' USING DELIMITERS '|' NULL AS 'A56A9FC261A143a48F6019F602ABF409';
And csv is attached.
Do you have any error message? I suspect the DATETIME to be a problem, as your table specifies a DATE, but my knowledge on SQL's date/time/timezone stuff is a bit rusty.
Hi Fabian,
The error i get is: !SQLException:sql:value '?»¿1997-01-01 00:00:00' while parsing '?»¿1997-01-01 00:00:00|City Mall|1110|6165|33|8122' from line 0 field 0 not inserted, expecting type date !SQLException:importTable:failed to import table
It seems like some chars (?»¿) are added to the first row inserted to the table. The chars do not appear in the csv file (attached).
Alfred
Fabian Groffen wrote:
Hi Alfred,
On 29-12-2008 00:58:40 -0800, Alfred Nordman wrote:
I'm trying to use the copy into with csv file (utf-8 encoded) and I encounter some problem. The create statement is:
CREATE TABLE "sa3e7e9f4d666429ea2c5bb61a532f5b9" ("A" DATE ,"B" VARCHAR (22) ,"C" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"D" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"E" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"F" DECIMAL (12, 5) )
The copy into statement is:
COPY INTO "sa3e7e9f4d666429ea2c5bb61a532f5b9" FROM 'T:\Prism\Applications\Desktop\PrismDesktop\bin\Debug\LocalRepository\ImportedCSV\ImportedCSV0.csv' USING DELIMITERS '|' NULL AS 'A56A9FC261A143a48F6019F602ABF409';
And csv is attached.
Do you have any error message? I suspect the DATETIME to be a problem, as your table specifies a DATE, but my knowledge on SQL's date/time/timezone stuff is a bit rusty.
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On 30-12-2008 01:50:32 -0800, Alfred Nordman wrote:
Hi Fabian,
The error i get is: !SQLException:sql:value '?»¿1997-01-01 00:00:00' while parsing '?»¿1997-01-01 00:00:00|City Mall|1110|6165|33|8122' from line 0 field 0 not inserted, expecting type date !SQLException:importTable:failed to import table
It seems like some chars (?»¿) are added to the first row inserted to the table. The chars do not appear in the csv file (attached).
Yeah, looks like garbage in the rendering. But I think the most important part is "expecting type date". You specified a datetime. If you want to really have date (1997-01-01) you need to change your CSV (remove the 00:00:00), or do the modification in the database after loading your dataset with a datetime instead of a date for column "A".
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 01:50:32AM -0800, Alfred Nordman wrote:
Hi Fabian,
The error i get is: !SQLException:sql:value '?»¿1997-01-01 00:00:00' while parsing '?»¿1997-01-01 00:00:00|City Mall|1110|6165|33|8122' from line 0 field 0 not inserted, expecting type date !SQLException:importTable:failed to import table
It seems like some chars (?»¿) are added to the first row inserted to the table. The chars do not appear in the csv file (attached).
With less you can see the following first chars <U+FEFF>.
Niels
Alfred
Fabian Groffen wrote:
Hi Alfred,
On 29-12-2008 00:58:40 -0800, Alfred Nordman wrote:
I'm trying to use the copy into with csv file (utf-8 encoded) and I encounter some problem. The create statement is:
CREATE TABLE "sa3e7e9f4d666429ea2c5bb61a532f5b9" ("A" DATE ,"B" VARCHAR (22) ,"C" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"D" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"E" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"F" DECIMAL (12, 5) )
The copy into statement is:
COPY INTO "sa3e7e9f4d666429ea2c5bb61a532f5b9" FROM 'T:\Prism\Applications\Desktop\PrismDesktop\bin\Debug\LocalRepository\ImportedCSV\ImportedCSV0.csv' USING DELIMITERS '|' NULL AS 'A56A9FC261A143a48F6019F602ABF409';
And csv is attached.
Do you have any error message? I suspect the DATETIME to be a problem, as your table specifies a DATE, but my knowledge on SQL's date/time/timezone stuff is a bit rusty.
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Hi Niels,
the first chars do not appear in the csv!!!!!
Niels Nes wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 01:50:32AM -0800, Alfred Nordman wrote:
Hi Fabian,
The error i get is: !SQLException:sql:value '?»¿1997-01-01 00:00:00' while parsing '?»¿1997-01-01 00:00:00|City Mall|1110|6165|33|8122' from line 0 field 0 not inserted, expecting type date !SQLException:importTable:failed to import table
It seems like some chars (?»¿) are added to the first row inserted to the table. The chars do not appear in the csv file (attached).
With less you can see the following first chars <U+FEFF>.
Niels
Alfred
Fabian Groffen wrote:
Hi Alfred,
On 29-12-2008 00:58:40 -0800, Alfred Nordman wrote:
I'm trying to use the copy into with csv file (utf-8 encoded) and I encounter some problem. The create statement is:
CREATE TABLE "sa3e7e9f4d666429ea2c5bb61a532f5b9" ("A" DATE ,"B" VARCHAR (22) ,"C" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"D" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"E" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"F" DECIMAL (12, 5) )
The copy into statement is:
COPY INTO "sa3e7e9f4d666429ea2c5bb61a532f5b9" FROM
'T:\Prism\Applications\Desktop\PrismDesktop\bin\Debug\LocalRepository\ImportedCSV\ImportedCSV0.csv'
USING DELIMITERS '|' NULL AS 'A56A9FC261A143a48F6019F602ABF409';
And csv is attached.
Do you have any error message? I suspect the DATETIME to be a problem, as your table specifies a DATE, but my knowledge on SQL's date/time/timezone stuff is a bit rusty.
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Hi Fabian,
It happens even if i change the table declartion so that column A is timestamp.
Fabian Groffen wrote:
On 30-12-2008 01:50:32 -0800, Alfred Nordman wrote:
Hi Fabian,
The error i get is: !SQLException:sql:value '?»¿1997-01-01 00:00:00' while parsing '?»¿1997-01-01 00:00:00|City Mall|1110|6165|33|8122' from line 0 field 0 not inserted, expecting type date !SQLException:importTable:failed to import table
It seems like some chars (?»¿) are added to the first row inserted to the table. The chars do not appear in the csv file (attached).
Yeah, looks like garbage in the rendering. But I think the most important part is "expecting type date". You specified a datetime. If you want to really have date (1997-01-01) you need to change your CSV (remove the 00:00:00), or do the modification in the database after loading your dataset with a datetime instead of a date for column "A".
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I haven't looked at your document, but it is probably the byte-order mark...
See section: 3.2 Byte order mark (BOM) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2781.txt
Normal editors/viewers hide it, as it isn't a visible character. I think MonetDB should have stripped it before showing you the error message.
My2cts, Wouter
2008/12/30 Niels Nes Niels.Nes@cwi.nl:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 01:50:32AM -0800, Alfred Nordman wrote:
Hi Fabian,
The error i get is: !SQLException:sql:value '?»¿1997-01-01 00:00:00' while parsing '?»¿1997-01-01 00:00:00|City Mall|1110|6165|33|8122' from line 0 field 0 not inserted, expecting type date !SQLException:importTable:failed to import table
It seems like some chars (?»¿) are added to the first row inserted to the table. The chars do not appear in the csv file (attached).
With less you can see the following first chars <U+FEFF>.
Niels
Alfred
Fabian Groffen wrote:
Hi Alfred, On 29-12-2008 00:58:40 -0800, Alfred Nordman wrote: I'm trying to use the copy into with csv file (utf-8 encoded) and I encounter some problem. >> The create statement is: >> >> CREATE TABLE "sa3e7e9f4d666429ea2c5bb61a532f5b9" ("A" DATE ,"B" VARCHAR (22) ,"C" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"D" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"E" DECIMAL (12, 5)
,"F"
DECIMAL (12, 5) ) >> >> The copy into statement is: >> >> COPY INTO "sa3e7e9f4d666429ea2c5bb61a532f5b9" >> FROM
'T:\Prism\Applications\Desktop\PrismDesktop\bin\Debug\LocalRepository\ImportedCSV\ImportedCSV0.csv'
USING DELIMITERS '|' NULL AS 'A56A9FC261A143a48F6019F602ABF409'; >> >>
And csv is attached. > > Do you have any error message? I suspect the DATETIME to be a problem,
as your table specifies a DATE, but my knowledge on SQL's date/time/timezone stuff is a bit rusty.
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 03:19:42AM -0800, Alfred Nordman wrote:
Hi Niels,
the first chars do not appear in the csv!!!!!
Sorry they do, but they look different.
Niels
Niels Nes wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 01:50:32AM -0800, Alfred Nordman wrote:
Hi Fabian,
The error i get is: !SQLException:sql:value '?»¿1997-01-01 00:00:00' while parsing '?»¿1997-01-01 00:00:00|City Mall|1110|6165|33|8122' from line 0 field 0 not inserted, expecting type date !SQLException:importTable:failed to import table
It seems like some chars (?»¿) are added to the first row inserted to the table. The chars do not appear in the csv file (attached).
With less you can see the following first chars <U+FEFF>.
Niels
Alfred
Fabian Groffen wrote:
Hi Alfred,
On 29-12-2008 00:58:40 -0800, Alfred Nordman wrote:
I'm trying to use the copy into with csv file (utf-8 encoded) and I encounter some problem. The create statement is:
CREATE TABLE "sa3e7e9f4d666429ea2c5bb61a532f5b9" ("A" DATE ,"B" VARCHAR (22) ,"C" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"D" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"E" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"F" DECIMAL (12, 5) )
The copy into statement is:
COPY INTO "sa3e7e9f4d666429ea2c5bb61a532f5b9" FROM
'T:\Prism\Applications\Desktop\PrismDesktop\bin\Debug\LocalRepository\ImportedCSV\ImportedCSV0.csv'
USING DELIMITERS '|' NULL AS 'A56A9FC261A143a48F6019F602ABF409';
And csv is attached.
Do you have any error message? I suspect the DATETIME to be a problem, as your table specifies a DATE, but my knowledge on SQL's date/time/timezone stuff is a bit rusty.
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Alfred Nordman wrote:
Hi Fabian,
It happens even if i change the table declartion so that column A is timestamp.
The last couple of days the COPY functionality has been improved and made more robust. It might be that you hit one of the bugs solved. The following experiment runs:
mk> mclient -lsql sql>create table tmp_date ( d timestamp, s string); 0 tuples sql>COPY 1 RECORDs INTO tmp_date FROM stdin USING DELIMITERS '|', '\n'; more>1997-01-01 00:00:00|City Mall Rows affected 1 sql>select * from tmp_date; +----------------------------+-----------+ | d | s | +============================+===========+ | 1997-01-01 00:00:00.000000 | City Mall | +----------------------------+-----------+ 1 tuple
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 03:19:42AM -0800, Alfred Nordman wrote:
Hi Niels,
the first chars do not appear in the csv!!!!!
the first line of your csv file *does* start with "ef bb bf" (hex) *before* the first time stamp ("1997-01-01 00:00:00":
======== $ head -n1 ImportedCSV0.csv | hexdump -C -------- 00000000 ef bb bf 31 39 39 37 2d 30 31 2d 30 31 20 30 30 |...1997-01-01 00| 00000010 3a 30 30 3a 30 30 7c 43 69 74 79 20 4d 61 6c 6c |:00:00|City Mall| 00000020 7c 31 31 31 30 7c 36 31 36 35 7c 33 33 7c 38 31 ||1110|6165|33|81| 00000030 32 32 0d 0a |22..| 00000034 ======== $ head -n1 ImportedCSV0.csv | cut -c2- | hexdump -C -------- 00000000 31 39 39 37 2d 30 31 2d 30 31 20 30 30 3a 30 30 |1997-01-01 00:00| 00000010 3a 30 30 7c 43 69 74 79 20 4d 61 6c 6c 7c 31 31 |:00|City Mall|11| 00000020 31 30 7c 36 31 36 35 7c 33 33 7c 38 31 32 32 0d |10|6165|33|8122.| 00000030 0a |.| 00000031 ========
looks like some "magic byte" (-like) file type identifier left over by some nasty (Windows-?) program that created the csv file ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming) says: " Unicode text files encoded in UTF-16 often start with the Byte Order Mark to detect endianness ('FE FF' for big endian and 'FF FE' for little endian). UTF-8 text files often start with the UTF-8 encoding of the same character, 'EF BB BF'. "
Stefan
Niels Nes wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 01:50:32AM -0800, Alfred Nordman wrote:
Hi Fabian,
The error i get is: !SQLException:sql:value '?»¿1997-01-01 00:00:00' while parsing '?»¿1997-01-01 00:00:00|City Mall|1110|6165|33|8122' from line 0 field 0 not inserted, expecting type date !SQLException:importTable:failed to import table
It seems like some chars (?»¿) are added to the first row inserted to the table. The chars do not appear in the csv file (attached).
With less you can see the following first chars <U+FEFF>.
Niels
Alfred
Fabian Groffen wrote:
Hi Alfred,
On 29-12-2008 00:58:40 -0800, Alfred Nordman wrote:
I'm trying to use the copy into with csv file (utf-8 encoded) and I encounter some problem. The create statement is:
CREATE TABLE "sa3e7e9f4d666429ea2c5bb61a532f5b9" ("A" DATE ,"B" VARCHAR (22) ,"C" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"D" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"E" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"F" DECIMAL (12, 5) )
The copy into statement is:
COPY INTO "sa3e7e9f4d666429ea2c5bb61a532f5b9" FROM
'T:\Prism\Applications\Desktop\PrismDesktop\bin\Debug\LocalRepository\ImportedCSV\ImportedCSV0.csv'
USING DELIMITERS '|' NULL AS 'A56A9FC261A143a48F6019F602ABF409';
And csv is attached.
Do you have any error message? I suspect the DATETIME to be a problem, as your table specifies a DATE, but my knowledge on SQL's date/time/timezone stuff is a bit rusty.
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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:38:54PM +0100, Wouter Alink wrote:
I haven't looked at your document, but it is probably the byte-order mark...
See section: 3.2 Byte order mark (BOM) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2781.txt
Normal editors/viewers hide it, as it isn't a visible character. I think MonetDB should have stripped it before showing you the error message.
If "magic numbers" and/or "byte order marks" are indeed to be expected in *plain* text (csv) files, then yes, ortherwise, it could only mention that the file does not comply to the expected *plain* text format.
Stefan's €0.02 ;-)
My2cts, Wouter
2008/12/30 Niels Nes Niels.Nes@cwi.nl:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 01:50:32AM -0800, Alfred Nordman wrote:
Hi Fabian,
The error i get is: !SQLException:sql:value '?»¿1997-01-01 00:00:00' while parsing '?»¿1997-01-01 00:00:00|City Mall|1110|6165|33|8122' from line 0 field 0 not inserted, expecting type date !SQLException:importTable:failed to import table
It seems like some chars (?»¿) are added to the first row inserted to the table. The chars do not appear in the csv file (attached).
With less you can see the following first chars <U+FEFF>.
Niels
Alfred
Fabian Groffen wrote:
Hi Alfred, On 29-12-2008 00:58:40 -0800, Alfred Nordman wrote: I'm trying to use the copy into with csv file (utf-8 encoded) and I encounter some problem. >> The create statement is: >> >> CREATE TABLE "sa3e7e9f4d666429ea2c5bb61a532f5b9" ("A" DATE ,"B" VARCHAR (22) ,"C" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"D" DECIMAL (12, 5) ,"E" DECIMAL (12, 5)
> ,"F"
DECIMAL (12, 5) ) >> >> The copy into statement is: >> >> COPY INTO "sa3e7e9f4d666429ea2c5bb61a532f5b9" >> FROM
'T:\Prism\Applications\Desktop\PrismDesktop\bin\Debug\LocalRepository\ImportedCSV\ImportedCSV0.csv'
> USING DELIMITERS '|' NULL AS 'A56A9FC261A143a48F6019F602ABF409'; >> >>
And csv is attached. > > Do you have any error message? I suspect the DATETIME to be a problem,
as your table specifies a DATE, but my knowledge on SQL's date/time/timezone stuff is a bit rusty.
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On 30-12-2008 13:17:23 +0100, Stefan Manegold wrote:
looks like some "magic byte" (-like) file type identifier left over by some nasty (Windows-?) program that created the csv file ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming) says: " Unicode text files encoded in UTF-16 often start with the Byte Order Mark to detect endianness ('FE FF' for big endian and 'FF FE' for little endian). UTF-8 text files often start with the UTF-8 encoding of the same character, 'EF BB BF'. "
Vim ignores it, so maybe we should as well?
On 30-12-2008 13:35:13 +0100, Stefan Manegold wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:38:54PM +0100, Wouter Alink wrote:
I haven't looked at your document, but it is probably the byte-order mark...
See section: 3.2 Byte order mark (BOM) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2781.txt
Normal editors/viewers hide it, as it isn't a visible character. I think MonetDB should have stripped it before showing you the error message.
If "magic numbers" and/or "byte order marks" are indeed to be expected in *plain* text (csv) files, then yes, ortherwise, it could only mention that the file does not comply to the expected *plain* text format.
Stefan's €0.02 ;-)
Could argue that since we only support UTF-8, we should try to support UTF-8 files in all kinds of flavours, or not?
% file ~/Desktop/ImportedCSV0.csv ~/Desktop/ImportedCSV0.csv: UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line terminators
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