Identifying Invalid CSV Files in Error Table Data

If a CSV file contains invalid formatting, the rawdata field in the error table can contain several combined rows. For example, if a closing quote for a specific field is missing, all the following newlines are treated as embedded newlines. When this happens, Greenplum stops parsing a row when it reaches 64K, puts that 64K of data into the error table as a single row, resets the quote flag, and continues. If this happens three times during load processing, the load file is considered invalid and the entire load fails with the message "rejected N or more rows". See Escaping in CSV Formatted Files for more information on the correct use of quotes in CSV files.

Parent topic: Handling Load Errors