Granting COPY FROM access

Jim Cser wrote:

[post header corrected, sorry]

I have an application that uses ODBC to access a PostGreSQL 8.0.3
database. To load in text files (comma separated, with column headers),
I use the SQL statement COPY FROM, which requires me to be a superuser.
I don't need full superuser access, so I would like to restrict the
permissions to only those necessary. The GRANT doc says that INSERT
privilege allows COPY FROM, so as a superuser I did something like
"GRANT INSERT ON my_database TO regular_user".

Unfortunately, when I login to my_database as regular_user, I don't
have permission to do COPY FROM. So, my question is: can COPY FROM
permission be granted to a non-superuser, or is there something else
that I missed?

Are you trying from a file or stdin? What error message do you get when
you try?

pg_dump does it like this:

COPY table (field1, field2) FROM stdin;
1 1
2 2
\.

maybe you can use that method instead of from a file?

See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/sql-copy.html in case you
haven't before.

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