From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: T E Schmitz <mailreg@numerixtechnology.de>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: import CSV file
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:27:33 -0400
Message-ID: <20070313222733.GE3285@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F70BC9.801@numerixtechnology.de>
References: <45F70BC9.801@numerixtechnology.de>
T E Schmitz wrote:
> I am trying to batch-load a tab-separated CSV file:
>
> psql -h lolek -U tes -d stockmarket -c "copy history from
> '/tmp/FTSE.csv' CSV";
>
> ERROR: could not open file "/tmp/FTSE.csv" for reading: No such file or
> directory
>
> The file exists. Do I need to escape the quotes?
Is the server on the same machine that's running psql? If not, then
this fails because it tries to open the file server-side. The suggested
workaround is to use psql's \copy.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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