Re: COPY permissions problem - Windows XP

Jim,

First of all, thanks for your fast response. I'm doing a benchmark and
your quick turn around will be noted in my findings.

I'm trying to use the COPY command. I've tried executing it using
pgadmin and pgsql and receive the same message about no read
permissions. Here is the syntax?

COPY as_benchmark.midt FROM 'C:/postgres_data/midt_short.csv' WITH CSV

Here is the error I receive.

ERROR: could not open file "c:/postgres_data/midt_short.csv" for
reading: Permission denied

I understand that postgres must have access, but how do I make sure it
is granted in Windows?

Fyi...the use of "/" or "\\" in Windows could use some documentation
explaining the acceptable ways to use them.

Thx again,

Terry Nolen

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim C. Nasby [mailto:decibel(at)decibel(dot)org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 7:10 PM
To: Nolen, Terry
Cc: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] COPY permissions problem - Windows XP

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 04:32:17PM -0600, Nolen, Terry wrote:

> I'm new to postgresql and I'm trying to test the copy command with a
csv

> file. I keep getting an error which states that I don't have read

> permissions.

>

> My database is owned by postgres, and I'm signed in as postgres. The

> table that I'm placing the data into has a different owner. I've
tried

> changing privileges in windows to allow all access to everyone on this

> machine access. I've even shared the machine with external users.
I've

> move the file to different directorys and created a tablespace with my

> new table in it, into the postgres data directory.

>

> I see this type of error on many boards, but they tend to be with a

> flavor of unix. I'm really not getting the premise behind what is
going

> on and why. Could you please assist?

We need to know exactly what command you're trying to run, if it's in

psql or something else, and the exact error message.

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