That usually means that the database user doesn't have Windows file
level permissions to write to that folder.
Maybe when you upgraded to pgadmin 1.6 and now are using a different
user id to log into the it? Perhaps the destination directory was c:
\postgresql\8.1\data before?
Mike
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 03:28 +0100, Tomas Lanczos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Using PostgreSQL 8.1.4, pgadmin III 1.6.0 in WinXP I tried to export a table
> using COPY (first time in postgresql, did many times in Sybase):
>
> COPY ml50jtsk_datum_v TO 'c:/postgresql/ml50jtsk.out';
>
> I got the following errormessage:
>
> ERROR: could not open file "c:/postgresql/ml50jtsk.out" for writing:
> Permission denied
> SQL state: 42501
>
> What's wrong? Does it mean that the database user has no writing permission
> out of the database? How I did a pg_dump then few weeks ago?
>
> Many thanks for help and/or explanation, best regards and Happy New Year
>
> Tomas
>
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