> > On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 11:52 AM Francisco Olarte > <folarte@peoplecall.com <mailto:folarte@peoplecall.com>> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 16 Sept 2024 at 17:36, Andy Hartman <hartman60home@gmail.com > <mailto:hartman60home@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I'm trying to run this piece of code from Powershell and it just > sits there and never comes back. There are only 131 records in > the csv. > $connectionString = > "Host=$pgServer;Database=$pgDatabase;Username=$pgUser;Password=$pgPassword" > $copyCommand = "\COPY $pgTable FROM '$csvPath' DELIMITER ',' CSV > HEADER;" > psql -h $pgServer -d $pgDatabase -U $pgUser -c $copyCommand > how can I debug this? > > > I would start by adding -a and -e after "psql". > > IIRC Powershell is windows, and in windows shell do not pass command > words preparsed as in *ix to the executable, but a single command > line with the executable must parse. Given the amount of quoting, -a > and -e will let you see the commands are properly sent, and if it is > trying to read something what it is. > > I will also try to substitute the -c with a pipe. If it heals, it is > probably a quoting issue. > > Also, I just caught Ron's message, and psql might be waiting for a > password. > > Francisco Olarte. >