On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:39:22PM +0100, Matthew Stanfield wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to import tables in psql but am getting a permission denied
> error. I'm using the '\i file' command as I intend to import 100+ tables
> and want to set this up to run overnight (almost 1 GB of data is going in).
>
> My test for this is not working. I have a 'batch' file the contents of
> which are (at the moment) only:
>
> COPY ab FROM '/home/ms/db/csv/AB.csv'
>
> Table 'ab' exists as does the csv file and I am logged in as 'postgres'.
You want \copy. COPY asks the backend to do it, which may not have
permission, as you noticed.
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