On 04/12/2012 23:39, Stefan Keller wrote: > Hi > > I'm getting an error when reading from a file_fdw table in a Windows > environment. > Any hints? (see below). > > And http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/file-fdw.html is not > really verbose :-> > At least following format options should be mentioned: 'xml', 'text', > 'csv', 'binary'. > > Yours, Stefan > > > That's what I'm doing: > > CREATE EXTENSION file_fdw; > > CREATE SERVER file_server FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER file_fdw; > > CREATE FOREIGN TABLE foreignfiletable(id text, title text) > SERVER file_server > OPTIONS(format 'csv', header 'true', filename > 'C:/Users/someuser/Downloads/file.csv', delimiter '|', null ''); > > SELECT * FROM foreignfiletable; > -- ERROR: file »C:/Users/someuser/Downloads/file.csv« could not be > opened for reading: Permission denied. Have you checked that the user account under which the server is running has the necessary permissions to read that file? - That's what the error message would seem to indicate. Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland rod@xxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
