Received: from bilbo.irschick.com (IDENT:root@[216.112.14.236]) by hub.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA40292 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 01:09:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mirschick@penguinsystems.com) Received: from penguinsystems.com (mirschick@bilbo.irschick.com [216.112.14.236]) by bilbo.irschick.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA10533 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 22:01:29 -0800 Sender: mirschick@bilbo.irschick.com Message-ID: <36F9D138.FF17C238@penguinsystems.com> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 22:01:28 -0800 From: Michael Irschick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org Subject: I can not import text file... Errno = Permission denied (13) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have not been able to insert a text file into my postgres table. Here is the file. -rw-rw-r-- 1 mirschic mirschic 14 Mar 24 21:26 test.txt /home/mirschick/test.txt "test","test" ---- oprs=> copy entmap from '/home/mirschick/test.txt' using delimiters ','; ERROR: COPY command, running in backend with effective uid 100, could not open file '/home/mirschick/test.txt' for reading. Errno = Permission denied (13). oprs=> --- So what is going on? I tried diff text files, and diff tables I always get the same error. (Errno = Permission denied) my username is mirschick I created the text file as mirschick I created the table, and database as mirschick. --- Thanks for any help.. I am a newbie.... mirschick@penguinsystems.com