Re: ERROR: relative path not allowed for COPY to file

Hi,

I have noticed that I receive a warning when opening a psql console from
pgAdmin III.

Console code page (850) differs from Windows code page
(1252)

8-bit characters might not work correctly. See psql
reference

Page "Notes for Windows users" for details.

Could this be contributing to my problem?

Cheers

Steven

From: Michael Shapiro [mailto:mshapiro51(at)gmail(dot)com]
Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013 1:48 PM
To: Katona, Steve
Cc: pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] ERROR: relative path not allowed for COPY
to file

It might be the /
Try \ instead

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Katona, Steve
<SKatona(at)begavalley(dot)nsw(dot)gov(dot)au> wrote:

I am using pgAdmin 14.1 and then tried with pgAdmin 16.1

I have tried:

COPY (select * from file) TO '"C:/Dev/test.csv"';

And get the error:

ERROR: relative path not allowed for COPY to file

SQL state: 42602

Also, when I try:

COPY temp_import FROM
E'"C:/Dev/exponare_data_mgr/exponare_filelist.txt"';

I get the following error:

ERROR: could not open file
""C:/Dev/exponare_data_mgr/exponare_filelist.txt"" for reading: No such
file or directory

SQL state: 58P01

I suspect that pgAdmin is not passing the filename in a manner, that the
shell on windows7 ,interprets correctly.

I have also tried the same commands from the psql console and achieve
the same results.

Under linux the commands work well.

Is there a suggestion for things I change/check to get COPY to work?

Cheers

Steven

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