Re: server permissions for sql copy

Yup, that was the problem. COPY works fine now.

Thanks for yet another lesson.

Andrew Gould

--- Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andrew Gould <andrewgould(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > I'm running PostgreSQL 7.0.2 on Caldera eDesktop
> 2.4.
> > when I try to use the SQL COPY command in psql, I
> get
> > an error message informing me that the backend
> could
> > not open the file for reading. I think the error
> > number was 13 - Permission denied. I changed the
> > permissions of the directory and file to
> > world-readable; but I still get the same error
> > message.
>
> What about the directories above the one containing
> the file?
>
> Also, don't forget that the critical permission for
> a directory
> is execute (= "allow lookup of entries"), not read
> (= "make a
> directory listing"). You probably want permissions
> rwxr-xr-x
> or rwxrwxr-x on directories that need to be publicly
> readable.
>
> regards, tom lane

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