I am having a number of problems with importing CSV data:
Sometimes when I select a file to import it just hangs. The file is imported into Files, but it does not present the next screen to match the data types.
Even when I have an existing table and have disabled dynamic schema definition, the import changes the format of all STRING columns to 500 and adds columns, rather then generating an error.
If I add the type definition in the column names, I get an invalid file format error after selecting a file, so this does not appear to be a workaround for the above issue.
After accidentally trying to import a column called invoiceId when the matching column in the database is called invoice, when I try and change the invoice column name to invoiceid I get a duplicate column error even though the column doesn’t apear in either the schema or the data browser.
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Point 1 above doesn’t happen reproducibly. If I can see a pattern I will report it again.
To illustrate point 2, I just created a table called Test1 with columns string1 (STRING 30) and string2 (string 250). After importing the following file with two rows in it: Test1.csv (40 Bytes)
both columns are showing “STRING | MAX LENGTH: 500”
For point 3, f I try to import the same file with data type definitions as follows: Test1.csv (64 Bytes)
I get the following error: “An error occurred. Invalid file.”
As an example of 4, I tried to import data into a table called Patient_old (this failed. I’m assuming it’s my fault for the moment). An additional column was entered into the schema called referring_doctor by the import process. Now when I try and delete it I get the following error: “Can’t DROP ‘referring_doctor’; check that column/key exists”
I will try to get some simple, reproducible examples using my actual data too, but unfortunately I have been changing things around as I have been experimenting today…
In this example I imported the following file with no schema definition. It created some of the columns in the schema (but not all) and imported all of the rows.