Thread: syntax error for no apparent reason
Hi,
I've encountered this before, psql gives me a syntax error for no clear reason. It's allways on the first character of a sql file.
I think that there must be some strange character code at the first position, maybe it is because i share a ntfs partition with the windows installation on my laptop and move files around.
I only editted this file with gedit, pgAdmin and vim on ubuntu lucid desktop.
Here's the error:
postgres=# \i db02-vulling.sql
psql:db02-vulling.sql:1: ERROR: syntax error at or near "begin"
LINE 1: begin;
^
INSERT 0 10100
INSERT 0 101
INSERT 0 100
psql:db02-vulling.sql:12: WARNING: there is no transaction in progress
COMMIT
postgres=#
The file is in the attachment, both gzipped and as-is.
I hope someone can reproduce this.
(the code itself makes no sense but that's not relevant here)
WBL
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I've encountered this before, psql gives me a syntax error for no clear reason. It's allways on the first character of a sql file.
I think that there must be some strange character code at the first position, maybe it is because i share a ntfs partition with the windows installation on my laptop and move files around.
I only editted this file with gedit, pgAdmin and vim on ubuntu lucid desktop.
Here's the error:
postgres=# \i db02-vulling.sql
psql:db02-vulling.sql:1: ERROR: syntax error at or near "begin"
LINE 1: begin;
^
INSERT 0 10100
INSERT 0 101
INSERT 0 100
psql:db02-vulling.sql:12: WARNING: there is no transaction in progress
COMMIT
postgres=#
The file is in the attachment, both gzipped and as-is.
I hope someone can reproduce this.
(the code itself makes no sense but that's not relevant here)
WBL
--
"Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it." -- George Bernard Shaw
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> I've encountered this before, psql gives me a syntax error for no clear
> reason. It's allways on the first character of a sql file.
> I think that there must be some strange character code at the first
> position, maybe it is because i share a ntfs partition with the windows
> installation on my laptop and move files around.
Yeah, this is caused by pgadmin adding a unicode marker at the first
position of the file. If you uncheck "Read and Write Unicode UTF-8
Files" in the preferences, this issue should go away.
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-- Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://www.pgexperts.com
Le 04/12/2010 02:45, Josh Berkus a écrit : > >> I've encountered this before, psql gives me a syntax error for no clear >> reason. It's allways on the first character of a sql file. >> I think that there must be some strange character code at the first >> position, maybe it is because i share a ntfs partition with the windows >> installation on my laptop and move files around. > > Yeah, this is caused by pgadmin adding a unicode marker at the first > position of the file. If you uncheck "Read and Write Unicode UTF-8 > Files" in the preferences, this issue should go away. > It goes away because the file is no longer in UTF-8, and that may not be what the OP wants. I have a patch ready to be commited that will handle this. But you will need next pgAdmin's release. -- Guillaume http://www.postgresql.fr http://dalibo.com
Willy-Bas Loos wrote: > I've encountered this before, psql gives me a syntax error for no > clear reason. It's allways on the first character of a sql file. > The file is in the attachment hexdump says the first three bytes of that file are: ef bb bf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark -Kevin