Re: COPY problem in JDBC driver

["Albe Laurenz" <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>]

Michael Epstein wrote:
> I am using the COPY implementation in the latest 
> (postgresql-8.4-701.jdbc4) driver with Java VM 1.6.0 (Mac OSX)
> 
> My code is the following (just trying to insert a string from 
> a file into a single column):
> 
> public static void main(String[] args) { 
> try {
> Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
> Connection connection = 
> DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1:5432/
> xseq_zip","postgres", "postgres");
> PreparedStatement statement = 
> connection.prepareStatement("DELETE FROM jdbctest");
> statement.execute();
> System.out.println("Erased Db");
> System.out.println(connection.toString());
> 
> 
> PGConnection pConn = (PGConnection)connection;
> CopyManager copyManager = pConn.getCopyAPI();
> String columns = "(name)";
> copyManager.copyIn("COPY jdbctest " + columns + " FROM '" + 
> "/Users/foobar/Documents/bulk.txt" + '");
> }
> 
> catch (Exception ex){
> ex.printStackTrace();
> }
> }
> 
> The code inserts the value from the file into the db but 
> throws the following exception:
> 
> 
> org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Received CommandComplete 'COPY 1' without an active copy operation
> at org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.processCopyResults(QueryExecutorImpl.java:918)
> at org.postgresql.core.v3.QueryExecutorImpl.startCopy(QueryExecutorImpl.java:713)
> at org.postgresql.copy.CopyManager.copyIn(CopyManager.java:52)
> at tests.JDBCTest.main(JDBCTest.java:33)
> 
> Has anyone noticed this before? Am I doing something wrong?

Your COPY statement is an SQL statement that will not need the CopyManager.
It will read the data from a file on the server.
Just run it like a normal statement.
You'll need superuser privileges though.

I didn't look at it, but I guess that CopyManager is only necessary
if you want to load from or export to files on the client side,
which amounts to a COPY ... TO/FROM STDIN in SQL.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe