Granting COPY FROM access

From: "Jim Cser" <Cser(at)metro(dot)dst(dot)or(dot)us>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Granting COPY FROM access
Date: 2006-07-06 01:12:31
Message-ID: s4ac0128.061@metro.dst.or.us
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[post header corrected, sorry]

I have an application that uses ODBC to access a PostGreSQL 8.0.3
database. To load in text files (comma separated, with column headers),
I use the SQL statement COPY FROM, which requires me to be a superuser.
I don't need full superuser access, so I would like to restrict the
permissions to only those necessary. The GRANT doc says that INSERT
privilege allows COPY FROM, so as a superuser I did something like
"GRANT INSERT ON my_database TO regular_user".

Unfortunately, when I login to my_database as regular_user, I don't
have permission to do COPY FROM. So, my question is: can COPY FROM
permission be granted to a non-superuser, or is there something else
that I missed?

-Jim Cser

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