Re: Fw: problems with copy command

Apache might run as 'nobody', but you do not need to connect to pgsql as
'nobody'.
$dbc = pg_connect( "dbname=xxxx user=yyyy" );
'yyyy' does Not need to be 'nobody'.

If 'yyyy' is a user with super-user priviledges, then COPY will work/
I just tested it with the following php code:
$dbc = pg_connect( "dbname=gwacl user=fbax" );
$sql = "copy emptest from '/tmp/empdata.txt'";
pg_FreeResult( pg_exec( $dbc, $sql ) );
pg_close( $dbc );
And it worked just fine (6.5.3).
I got 'permission denied' messages when user did not have super-user
priviledge.
Frank

At 05:24 PM 5/09/00 +0200, you wrote:
>because apache can only run as nobody, in my case.
>I thought about it already, I guess the only sulution is stdin.
>bye
>Paolo
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Frank Bax" <fbax(at)execulink(dot)com>
>To: "Paolo Zampieri" <pzampier(at)it(dot)ip-plus(dot)net>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 5:16 PM
>Subject: Re: [GENERAL] problems with copy command
>
>
>> Why not just use a different userid (perhaps the userid you used with
>psql)
>> when connecting to the database?
>>
>> Frank
>>
>> At 04:53 PM 5/09/00 +0200, you wrote:
>> >hello everybody,
>> >I tried to copy a file into a table from the postgres terminal, and all
>> >worked fine.
>> >But when I tryed the same with the php pg_exec() command the result was:
>> >
>> >PostgresSQL query failed: ERROR: You must have Postgres superuser
>privilege
>> >to do a COPY directly to or from a file. Anyone can COPY to stdout or
>from
>> >stdin. Psql's \copy command also works for anyone.
>> >
>> >I can't use \copy from php because there is no \copy interface in php,
>only
>> >pg_exec(sql command), so the only way is to use stdin!
>> >Someone has ideas about how to pipe the file and than read the pipe from
>the
>> >copy sql command?
>> >
>> >hope will interest
>> >bye
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
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