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

For me it worked to simply to add sudo (or run as root) for the chown command:

sudo chown postgres /users/darchcruise/desktop/items_ordered.csv