Re: run COPY as user other than postgres

From: Ryan Kelly <rpkelly22(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kirk Wythers <wythe001(at)umn(dot)edu>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: run COPY as user other than postgres
Date: 2013-04-23 20:20:27
Message-ID: 20130423202027.GA25428@llserver.lakeliving.com
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On Tue, Apr 04/23/13, 2013 at 03:11:21PM -0500, Kirk Wythers wrote:
> I would like to run the COPY command as a user other than "postgres".
> I find it a bit of a pain (or at least requiring an extra step or two)
> to have the postgres user own the files that I am creating with COPY
> TO. Here is a simple example where the location
> '/some/path/to/file/file.csv' is owned by another user and it would be
> very spiffy if I could run the COPY TO as that user. Any ideas?
>

You should use \copy if you're using psql. That will run on the client
side, as the user running psql.

-Ryan Kelly

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