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

Thanks Ilya,

Everything is blindingly clear now!

Thanks for your response,

muchly appreciated

Steven

From: Ilya Makarov [mailto:makarov(dot)tula(at)gmail(dot)com]
Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013 2:50 PM
To: Katona, Steve
Cc: <pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] ERROR: relative path not allowed for COPY to file

Hi. Is this path(”C:/Dev/test.csv") on the server with PostgreSQL database? You can't COPY to file on the client machine.

Part from man pages (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-copy.html):

Files named in a COPY command are read or written directly by the server, not by the client application. Therefore, they must reside on or be accessible to the database server machine, not the client. They must be accessible to and readable or writable by the PostgreSQL user (the user ID the server runs as), not the client. COPY naming a file is only allowed to database superusers, since it allows reading or writing any file that the server has privileges to access.

Best regards,

Ilya Makarov

15.02.2013, в 6:43, "Katona, Steve" <SKatona(at)begavalley(dot)nsw(dot)gov(dot)au> написал(а):

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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