On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Kirk Wythers <wythe001@umn.edu> wrote:
> I would like to run the COPY command as a user other than "postgres". I find it a bit of a pain (or at least
requiringan extra step or two) to have the postgres user own the files that I am creating with COPY TO. Here is a
simpleexample where the location '/some/path/to/file/file.csv' is owned by another user and it would be very spiffy if
Icould run the COPY TO as that user. Any ideas?
sudo chown anotheruser:postgres /some/path/to/file/file.csv
sudo chmod 664 /some/path/to/file/file.csv
This will set the file's group to postgres and allow it's members to
write to the file.
>
>
>
> COPY (
> SELECT * FROM
> some_table
> WHERE
> 2012 = EXTRACT (YEAR FROM some_column) --AND value IS NOT NULL
> )
> TO '/some/path/to/file/file.csv' WITH CSV HEADER;
>
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