Re: copy error

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Hello Reiner,
What you need to check is that the user that the postmaster is running
as can access where you have the file.

Maybe you have a private home directory for your user account?

Also, check the permissions of the file.

It is the postmaster that opens the file in the copy command, not the
client (psql or the PHP module for instance).

One way to test this:

sudo -u postgres head ~/data/pg_nor.out

assuming that the postmaster is running as user postgres




On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 21:57 +0200, reiner peterke wrote:
> either i'm trying to hard or something is wrong here.
> 
> i have 2 postgres installations one at work 8.0.4 on windows xp and one 
> at home on os x 10.3.9 and postgres 8.0.3.  i took a data file and 
> loaded into  the installation at work with the copy command.  but when 
> i try the same thing here on my os x installation i get the following 
> error.
> 
> ERROR:  could not open file "data/pg_nor.out" for reading: No such file 
> or directory
> 
> the command i run is
> 
> copy mig_equip from 'data/pg_nor.out' using delimiters '|' with null as 
> '';
> 
> the command i used at work was
> 
> copy mig_equip from 'c:/tmp/pg_nor.out' using delimiters '|' with null 
> as '';
> 
> the only difference being the location of the file.
> 
> i've tried changing the location, ran with the full path, did chmod on 
> the file, ran dos2unix to make sure that the was not a problem with the 
> file format. so i'm stumped.
> i'm afraid i'm missing something obvious but i can't figure it out.
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> thanks.
> 
> reiner
> 
> 
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