Thread: answer my question, please!!!

i want to copy table from file with command:
     COPY log FROM '/tmp/logfile.txt';
but there is error:
     ERROR: could not open file "/tmp/logfile.txt" for reading: Permission denied
what can i do for repair this error??
thanks for the answer..

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 04:29:42PM +0700, ria ulfa wrote:
> i want to copy table from file with command:
>      COPY log FROM '/tmp/logfile.txt';
> but there is error:
>      ERROR: could not open file "/tmp/logfile.txt" for reading: Permission
> denied
> what can i do for repair this error??
> thanks for the answer..

The file is read by the server process, therefore, the user the server
process runs as needs read permissions for the file.

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riakdr@gmail.com ("ria ulfa") writes:
> i want to copy table from file with command:
>      COPY log FROM '/tmp/logfile.txt';
> but there is error:
>      ERROR: could not open file "/tmp/logfile.txt" for reading: Permission denied
> what can i do for repair this error??
> thanks for the answer..

It's worth observing that the louder the demands are in the subject
line, the less likely that people are to *want* to volunteer
assistance.

The problem here is that COPY accesses data as whatever Unix user is
running the database, typically "postgres" or "pgsql".

Presumably that user hasn't rights to access the file
"/tmp/logfile.txt".  Perhaps that needs to be changed.
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