Granting COPY FROM access

From: "Jim Cser" <Cser(at)metro(dot)dst(dot)or(dot)us>
To: <pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Granting COPY FROM access
Date: 2006-07-06 20:03:03
Message-ID: s4ad0a0f.079@metro.dst.or.us
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>The problem isn't permission for copy, it permission to access files.

>only the super user can access the file system through pgsql, because
of
>security concerns.

>copy can be run by anybody. copy from/to a FILE can only be done by
the
>super user.

>Have you tried queueing up copy from stdin and a stream of data and
\.
>in ODBC? I'm pretty sure that'll work, but I've never tried it.

I imagine that your solution would work, but the larger issue is that I
am sending the SQL from an R program, and not using the psql console. I
could launch it the console programmatically and send copy commands to
it, but that's just adding more moving parts. Having everyone be a
superuser is good enough for now, thanks anyway.

-Jim Cser

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