PostgreSQL - inconsistent COPY permissions errors

Question

I am using the EnterpriseDB pgAdmin III (v. 1.12.1) on a Windows 7, 32-bit machine to work with PostgreSQL databases on a remote Linux server. I am logged in as the user pos

Answer 1

Try \COPY table_name FROM '/var/lib/pgsql/data/file.csv' 
WITH DELIMITER AS ',' csv header

Notice the backslash before copy, when you run it with back slash it runs with user permissions other wise it just runs as postmaster which in the documentation is deprecated for recent versions of pg :|, anyways this might probably do the trick for ya .