Thread: help request

"Hasan Mokhtari" <mokhtari@hadid.sharif.ac.ir> writes:
>  If I use follawing command instead:
>       " \copy  table1 form /tmp/table1.aa using delimiters '|';
>  psql report follawing error :
>      "extra token after file name "
> what I can do?

Leave out the semicolon (';') at the end.  In general, psql's backslash
commands do not use a terminating semicolon --- they just end at the
end of the line.

Also, if you are using a version before 7.0, you may need to update.
I don't think psql supported "using delimiters" in \copy before 7.0.

            regards, tom lane

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:44:59 +0430
"Hasan Mokhtari" <mokhtari@hadid.sharif.ac.ir> wrote:

>  hello dear.
>  I want to run the following command
>      " copy  table1 form /tmp/table1.aa using delimiters '|';
> but I cant because I am not 'postgres' user and have not this privilage;
>  If I use follawing command instead:
>       " \copy  table1 form /tmp/table1.aa using delimiters '|';
>  psql report follawing error :
>      "extra token after file name "
> what I can do?
>  thanks a lot;
>
>


Perhaps you should quote the filename thus:
\copy  table1 from '/tmp/table1.aa' using delimiters '|';

HTH

ciao

Zak

"Hasan Mokhtari" wrote:
  > I want to run the following command
  >     " copy  table1 form /tmp/table1.aa using delimiters '|';
  >but I cant because I am not 'postgres' user and have not this privilage;

The issue is what the postgres backend can read; the filename given
must be readable by postgres; you can achieve this by the following
Unix command:

   chmod a+r /tmp/table1.aa

Then you can use the copy command as above (except that the filename must
be in single quotes):

  COPY table1 FROM '/tmp/table1.aa' USING DELIMITERS '|';


  > If I use follawing command instead:
  >      " \copy  table1 form /tmp/table1.aa using delimiters '|';
  > psql report follawing error :
  >     "extra token after file name "

\copy does not support "using delimiters"


  >what I can do?


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