Postgres ERROR: could not open file for reading: Permission denied

Question

Computer: Mac OS X, version 10.8 Database: Postgres

Trying to import csv file into postgres.

pg> copy items_ordered from \'/users/darchcruise/desk         


        

Answer 1

Copy your CSV file into the /tmp folder

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.