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

I think your postgres user still don't have access to your file.

Did you tried the folowing commands ?

chown postgres /var/lib/pgsql/data/file.csv

chmod u+r /var/lib/pgsql/data/file.csv

Answer 2

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 .

Answer 3

The problem is the access permissions trough the directories to the file. Postgres user does not have access to your home folder, for example. The answer is to use a folder all users have access like /tmp, or create one with the correct permissions so any user can access/read/write there, a sort of users shared folder.