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 macbook first i opened terminal then type

open /tmp

or in finder directory you directly enter command+shift+g then type /tmp in go to the folder.

it opens temp folder in finder. then i paste copied csv file into this folder.then again i go to postgres terminal and typed below command and then it is copied my csv data into db table

\copy recharge_operator FROM '/private/tmp/operator.csv' DELIMITER ',' CSV;