Re: local disk access for a remote psql connection

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

P Kapat <kap4lin(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> ... Now I want to copy a csv file, which is on the
> local client machine, into a table on the remote server machine. I try
> to do so via:

> COPY  myschm.mytb  FROM  '/home/myuser/myfile.csv'  WITH CSV header
> QUOTE AS '\"';

> which clearly doesn't work, giving: ERROR:  could not open file ......
> No such file or directory

Of course it won't work; that command reads files on the server's
filesystem.  Use psql's \copy command to copy files from/to the client
filesystem.

			regards, tom lane