Re: help request - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Oliver Elphick
Subject Re: help request
Date
Msg-id 200103271519.f2RFJW328672@linda.lfix.co.uk
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In response to help request  ("Hasan Mokhtari" <mokhtari@hadid.sharif.ac.ir>)
List pgsql-general
"Hasan Mokhtari" wrote:
  > I want to run the following command
  >     " copy  table1 form /tmp/table1.aa using delimiters '|';
  >but I cant because I am not 'postgres' user and have not this privilage;

The issue is what the postgres backend can read; the filename given
must be readable by postgres; you can achieve this by the following
Unix command:

   chmod a+r /tmp/table1.aa

Then you can use the copy command as above (except that the filename must
be in single quotes):

  COPY table1 FROM '/tmp/table1.aa' USING DELIMITERS '|';


  > If I use follawing command instead:
  >      " \copy  table1 form /tmp/table1.aa using delimiters '|';
  > psql report follawing error :
  >     "extra token after file name "

\copy does not support "using delimiters"


  >what I can do?


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