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

I resolved the same issue with a recursive chown on the parent folder:

sudo chown -R postgres:postgres /home/my_user/export_folder

(my export being in /home/my_user/export_folder/export_1.csv)

Answer 2

just in case you're facing this problem under windows 10 , add the group of users "youcomputer\Users" on the security Tab and grant it full control , that solved my issue

Answer 3

I had the same error message but was using psycopg2 to communicate with PostgreSQL. I fixed the permission issues by using the functions copy_from and copy_expert that will open the file on the client side as the user running the python script and feed the data to the database over STDIN.

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