Susan Hurst <susan.hurst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > ##-- output from terminal window > /home/dbzone/stp/rfc_db/RFC-00001/RFC-00001_copy_bar_active.csv: > schema_name,table_name,table_alias: not found > /home/dbzone/stp/rfc_db/RFC-00001/RFC-00001_copy_bar_active.csv: > chief,source_systems,ssys: not found > /home/dbzone/stp/rfc_db/RFC-00001/RFC-00001_copy_bar_active.csv: > chief,lookup_categories,lcat: not found > /home/dbzone/stp/rfc_db/RFC-00001/RFC-00001_copy_bar_active.csv: > chief,lookup_data,ldat: not found I'd say you're feeding the contents of the csv file to the Unix shell, not to psql. It's not real clear how that would happen given what you show as your initial shell command, but maybe ${CSVPATH} contains something odd? Also, as David noted, "-c" without any argument certainly isn't right. regards, tom lane