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 s

Answer 1

I'm sure there are multiple scenarios that would return this error. I just came across one that I don't see mentioned in the other answers while I was debugging someone else's code. The COPY had the EXPLICIT_IDS option listed, the table it was trying to import into had a column with a data type of identity(1,1), but the file it was trying to import into Redshift did not have an ID field. It made sense for me to add the identity field to the file. But, I imagine removing the EXPLICIT_IDS option would also have fixed the issue.