AWS Data Pipeline RedShift "delimiter not found" error

Question

I'm working on the data pipeline. In one of the steps CSV from S3 is consumed by RedShift DataNode. My RedShift table has 78 columns. Checked with:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_name = 'my_table';

After failed RedshiftCopyActivity 'stl_load_errors' table shows "Delimiter not found" (1214) error for line number 1, for column namespace (this is second column, varchar(255)) on position 0. Consumed CSV line looks like that:

0,my.namespace.string,2119652,458031,S,60,2015-05-02,2015-05-02 14:51:02,2015-05-02 14:51:14.0,1,Counter,1,Counter 01,91,Chaymae,0,,,,227817,1,Dine In,5788,2015-05-02 14:51:02,2015-05-02 14:51:27,17.45,0.00,0.00,17.45,,91,Chaymae,0,0.00,12,M,A,-1,13,F,0,0,2,2.50,F,1094055,Coleslaw Md Upt,8,Sonstige,900,Sides,901,Sides,0.00,0.00,0,,,0.0000,0,0,,,0.00,0.0000,0.0000,0,,,0.00,0.0000,,1,Woche Counter,127,Coleslaw Md Upt,2,2.50

After simple replacement ("," to "\n") I have 78 lines so it looks like the data should be matched... I'm stuck on that. Maybe someone knows how I can find more information about the error or see the solution?

EDIT

Query:

select d.query, substring(d.filename,14,20), 
d.line_number as line, 
substring(d.value,1,16) as value,
substring(le.err_reason,1,48) as err_reason
from stl_loaderror_detail d, stl_load_errors le
where d.query = le.query
and d.query = pg_last_copy_id();

results with 0 rows.

Arius Arius · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-10T14:53:48

I figured it out and maybe it will be useful for someone else:

There were in fact two problems.

My first field in the redshift table was of the type INT IDENTITY(1,1) and in CSV I had 0 value there. After removing the first column from CSV, even without specified columns mapping everything was copied without a problem if...
DELIMITER ',' commandOption was added to S3ToRedshiftCopyActivity to force using comma. Without it RedShift recognized dot from namespace (my.namespace.string) as delimiter.

AWS Data Pipeline RedShift "delimiter not found" error

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