COPY when 'filename' is a directory

From: Douglas Trainor <trainor(at)uic(dot)edu>
To: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: trainor(at)uic(dot)edu
Subject: COPY when 'filename' is a directory
Date: 2002-01-16 23:47:46
Message-ID: 3C461122.98CC6E4D@uic.edu
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I'd like to report a bug in 7.1.3 psql (at least on a 64-bit Alpha Linux box).
Maybe someone can confirm this or maybe it's fixed in 7.2

The 7.1 documentation ( http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?sql-copy.html )
for COPY ala

COPY table FROM 'filename'

says that if it fails you get feedback "ERROR: reason" and if it succeeds
you get feedback "COPY". However, I goofed today and my filename was a
directory, and I did not get ERROR... Here is a simplified version
demonstrating the lack of ERROR:

fred(at)goo> psql goo
Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help on internal slash commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit

goo=# DROP TABLE goober;
DROP
goo=# CREATE TABLE goober ( family VARCHAR(25), x integer, y integer );
CREATE
goo=# COPY goober FROM '/usr/local/pgsql/';
COPY
goo=# select count(*) from goober;
count
-------
0
(1 row)

goo=# \q

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