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Re: ERROR: must be superuser to COPY to or from a file



--- Jorge Alberto <csnmgeek(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> correct syntax:
> mydb=> \copy weather FROM /home/fideito/weather.txt
> 
> I have to delete the "" and the ";" to make it work.
> Do you know why is that?

my guess is that \copy is a psql command not a PostgreSQL command.

So \copy has different rules than than the syntax that PostgreSQL directly interprets.

Regards,
Richard Broersma Jr.



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