Redshift COPY command delimiter not found

Question

I'm trying to load some text files to Redshift. They are tab delimited, except for after the final row value. That's causing a delimiter not found error. I only see a way to set the field delimiter in the COPY statement, not a way to set a row delimiter. Any ideas that don't involve processing all my files to add a tab to the end of each row?

Thanks

Answer 1

I don't think the problem is with missing <tab> at the end of lines. Are you sure that ALL lines have correct number of fields?

Run the query:

select le.starttime, d.query, d.line_number, d.colname, d.value,
le.raw_line, le.err_reason    
from stl_loaderror_detail d, stl_load_errors le
where d.query = le.query
order by le.starttime desc
limit 100

to get the full error report. It will show the filename with errors, incorrect line number, and error details.

This will help to find where the problem lies.