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

if you're running your COPY command from a script, you can have a step in the script that creates the COPY command with the correct absolute path.

MYPWD=$(pwd)
echo "COPY geonames FROM '$MYPWD/US.txt', DELIMITER E'\t';"
MYPWD=

you can then run this portion into a file and execute it

./step_to_create_COPY_with_abs_path.sh >COPY_abs_path.sql
psql -f COPY_abs_path.sql -d your_db_name