Re: sql copy does not work

[<Aniko.Badzong@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: sql copy does not work

Hi Jason

 

You are a genius:-)) It worked....

I am fighting with it since a week...

Thank you so much.

 

Regards

Aniko

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From: Jason Minion [mailto:jason.minion@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 3:49 PM
To: Badzong Aniko, FX-IT-SDY-CIA-MSG; pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ADMIN] sql copy does not work

You probably need to add escaped slashes into your perl string to escape the quotes on the command line. Maybe try:

 

system ("su - postgres -c \"echo \"\\\"\"copy test from \'/data/log/20060115.out\'\;\"\\\"\" | psql imsdb\"");

Jason Minion

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From: pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aniko.Badzong@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 8:17 AM
To: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ADMIN] sql copy does not work

Hi

I have a problem with the copy command. I need to write a Perl script where I copy the log files into the database.
If I use the copy following syntax in shell script it works, but I need to use it in Perl.

In shell script look like this and it works.
su - postgres -c "echo "\""copy test from '/data/20060227.out';"\"" | psql imsdb"

this is how it looks like in Perl:
system ("su - postgres -c \"echo \"\"\"copy test from \'/data/log/20060115.out\'\;\"\"\" | psql imsdb\"");

I escape always the " but then I get the following error.
copy
sh:  | psql imsdb: not found

If I try the other way around there is always an error that role c does not exist....
system ("su - postgres -c \"psql imsdb -c \"copy mss6n from '/data/20060227.out'\;\"");
psql: warning: extra command-line argument "copy" ignored
psql: FATAL:  role "-c" does not exist

If I try to use copy with the -c option I always get an error that role -c does not exist.
Anyone has any idea why?
I was searching in the knowledge database and docs for this error but I can not find anything.

Many thanks
Aniko