I was trying to bulk load some data into Redshift this weekend using the copy command and I got this error message that no amount of Googling turned up a hit for. It was particularly strange given the hex value specified was for that exotic character the capital-O (as is OMG).

stl_load_errors listed the offending raw_line as being “.LZO”.

Anyway, this particular error message is documented here for the next person who forgets to toss lzop on to end of their copy command and tries to Google it

to be explicit you’ve got:

copy some_table from 's3://some_bucket/data.lzo' CREDENTIALS 'some_credentials' delimiter '\s' timeformat 'auto';

and you need

copy some_table from 's3://some_bucket/data.lzo' CREDENTIALS 'some_credentials' delimiter '\s' timeformat 'auto' lzop;