ERROR: COPY delimiter must be a single one-byte character

Question

I want to load the data from a flat file with delimiter \"~,~\" into a PostgreSQL table. I have tried it as below but looks like there is a restriction for the delimiter. If

Answer 1

If you are using Vertica, you could use E'\t'or U&'\0009'

To indicate a non-printing delimiter character (such as a tab), specify the character in extended string syntax (E'...'). If your database has StandardConformingStrings enabled, use a Unicode string literal (U&'...'). For example, use either E'\t' or U&'\0009' to specify tab as the delimiter.