Re: running \copy through perl dbi ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vincent Veyron
Subject Re: running \copy through perl dbi ?
Date
Msg-id 20231210183924.196759a6e72d0dadf31cf44e@libremen.org
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In response to running \copy through perl dbi ?  (David Gauthier <dfgpostgres@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: running \copy through perl dbi ?  (Chris Travers <chris.travers@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 10:45:28 -0500
David Gauthier <dfgpostgres@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to run a PG client side "\copy" command from a perl script.  I
> tried using $dbh->do("\\copy ...") but it barffed when it saw the '\'...
> ERROR:  syntax error at or near "\"
>
> I can do this with a command line approach, attaching to the DB  then run
> using...

Duh! I just realized that what I proposed with system() is a command line approach.

As David Johnston mentionned, you can use the SQL COPY command.

However, you need then to deal with permissions so that the server may write the file, so I wonder what approach is
cleaner?


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