help request

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:44:59 +0430
"Hasan Mokhtari" <mokhtari@hadid.sharif.ac.ir> wrote:

hello dear.
I want to run the following command
" copy table1 form /tmp/table1.aa using delimiters '|';
but I cant because I am not 'postgres' user and have not this privilage;
If I use follawing command instead:
" \copy table1 form /tmp/table1.aa using delimiters '|';
psql report follawing error :
"extra token after file name "
what I can do?
thanks a lot;

Perhaps you should quote the filename thus:
\copy table1 from '/tmp/table1.aa' using delimiters '|';

HTH

ciao

Zak

"Hasan Mokhtari" wrote:

I want to run the following command
" copy table1 form /tmp/table1.aa using delimiters '|';
but I cant because I am not 'postgres' user and have not this privilage;

The issue is what the postgres backend can read; the filename given
must be readable by postgres; you can achieve this by the following
Unix command:

chmod a+r /tmp/table1.aa

Then you can use the copy command as above (except that the filename must
be in single quotes):

COPY table1 FROM '/tmp/table1.aa' USING DELIMITERS '|';

If I use follawing command instead:
" \copy table1 form /tmp/table1.aa using delimiters '|';
psql report follawing error :
"extra token after file name "

\copy does not support "using delimiters"

what I can do?

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"Hasan Mokhtari" <mokhtari@hadid.sharif.ac.ir> writes:

If I use follawing command instead:
" \copy table1 form /tmp/table1.aa using delimiters '|';
psql report follawing error :
"extra token after file name "
what I can do?

Leave out the semicolon (';') at the end. In general, psql's backslash
commands do not use a terminating semicolon --- they just end at the
end of the line.

Also, if you are using a version before 7.0, you may need to update.
I don't think psql supported "using delimiters" in \copy before 7.0.

regards, tom lane