From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | "essay182(at)gmail(dot)com" <essay182(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: lo_import permissions problem |
Date: | 2005-12-02 04:12:32 |
Message-ID: | 27629.1133496752@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"essay182(at)gmail(dot)com" <essay182(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I have been trying to import a file into a table using lo_import and keep
> getting the error
> ERROR: could not open server file "/tmp/myfile": Permission denied
> The file is in /tmp so it is world readable and I made sure the file had the
> correct permissions by doing chmod 777. My user has super user privileges as
> well. I tried importing other files such as /etc/hosts as a test and this
> worked fine. I am running Gentoo linux with Postgres 8.0. Does anyone have
> any idea what the problem is and what I need to do to correct it?
Hm, are you sure that the /tmp directory has world execute permissions?
The other thought that comes to mind is that SELinux creates an entire
new level of reasons for permissions failures. I have no idea whether
or not Gentoo has SELinux or runs it in enforcing mode by default ...
regards, tom lane
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