Postgres COPY FROM csv file- No such file or directory

Question

I\'m trying to import a (rather large) .txt file into a table geonames in PostgreSQL 9.1. I\'m in the /~ directory of my server, with a file named US.txt placed in that director

Answer 1

The paths are relative to the PostgreSQL server, not the psql client.

Assuming you are running PostgreSQL 9.4, you can put US.txt in the directory /var/lib/postgresql/9.4/main/.