"Hunter's Lists" <lists@lastonepicked.com> writes:
> I get back:

> COPY departments (id, issue_id, title, description, feature_type) FROM
> stdin;

> 23 4 Local Buzz Things to do, people to see, places to go. aspen

> ERROR: syntax error at or near "23" at character 80

How are you feeding this into Postgres exactly? Scott's right that it
looks like the connection isn't getting switched into COPY mode at the
right instant, but you haven't given us any hint about why that might
be happening.

regards, tom lane

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