On Jun 21, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings, > I'm trying to test out the new postgres-fdw support in postgresql-9.3 > (beta) in preparation for an upgrade from 9.2 later this year. So > far, everything is working ok, however one problem I'm encountering is > with the COPY command. When I run it against a foreign table (which is > also in a 9.3 instance), it fails: > > COPY my_foreigntbl (id,testname) TO '/tmp/testlist_aid' (DELIMITER ','); > ERROR: cannot copy from foreign table "my_foreigntbl" > You would like to try something like: COPY (SELECT id, testname FROM my_foreigntbl) TO '/tmp/testlist_aid' (DELIMITER ','); I am curious to know, why do you want to execute COPY command through fdw, why not run directly on server, which has table? Thanks & Regards, Vibhor Kumar EnterpriseDB Corporation The Postgres Database Company Blog:http://vibhork.blogspot.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
