On Jun 21, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
> I'm trying to test out the new postgres-fdw support in postgresql-9.3
> (beta) in preparation for an upgrade from 9.2 later this year. So
> far, everything is working ok, however one problem I'm encountering is
> with the COPY command. When I run it against a foreign table (which is
> also in a 9.3 instance), it fails:
>
> COPY my_foreigntbl (id,testname) TO '/tmp/testlist_aid' (DELIMITER ',');
> ERROR: cannot copy from foreign table "my_foreigntbl"
>
You would like to try something like:
COPY (SELECT id, testname FROM my_foreigntbl) TO '/tmp/testlist_aid' (DELIMITER ',');
I am curious to know, why do you want to execute COPY command through fdw, why not run directly on server, which has
table?
Thanks & Regards,
Vibhor Kumar
EnterpriseDB Corporation
The Postgres Database Company
Blog:http://vibhork.blogspot.com
