I am running postgresql with pgAdmin4 on windows x64. I just created a database, then a table and now I want to add data to the table from an excel sheet using
copy table from 'C:\Users\username\Desktop\copy.csv' delimiter ',' csv header;
I get this error message:
ERROR: could not open file "C:\Users\username\Desktop\copy.csv" for
reading: Permission denied HINT: COPY FROM instructs the PostgreSQL
server process to read a file. You may want a client-side facility
such as psql's \copy. SQL state: 42501
I tried running it as admin but it didn't help.
Side note: pgadmin 4 opens on my Firefox browser with high privacy settings in case it has anything to do with it.
For people who are still having this issue, one of the fastest workarounds I found (that sidesteps permission changes) is to use the "Users\Public" folder when reading or writing files.
E.g if you want to read in "copy.csv", moving the file's location to "Users\Public\copy.csv" should allow you to read it without explicitly setting permissions for postgres/pgadmin
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I have a 10gb postgresql file I am trying to open but it is not allowed.Pgadmin gives the output exit code as 1 and I can't get the data. When I do it in SQL Shell, it says it didn't allow it.When I put it in the general file areas, it still gives an error. I set the sharing options for everyone, it still didn't work.
Postgresql 9.6 and Pgadmin 4v4
ERROR: could not open file "C:\Users\lenovo\Downloads\Owners.csv" for reading: Permission denied
HINT: COPY FROM instructs the PostgreSQL server process to read a file. You may want a client-side facility such as psql's \copy.
SQL state: 42501
I am trying to import a csv file into postgresql. But this error pops up. I search everywhere. But i Couldn't get the answer of it PLEASE HELP ME.
THANKS IN ADVANCE!!
COPY mytable FROM /path/thefile.csv WITH CSV,HEADER; is executed by the DBMS server, the .csv-file is read by the server. The server (typically) runs as user postgres, which cannot access arbitrary users's files. (Also: the client and server don't have to be running on the same machine) There are two possible solutions to this:
copy the csv-file to a place where the server can access it, in /tmp/, or somewhere under its home-directory.
use psql's \copy mytable(col1,col2,...) FROM '/path/file.csv'... (slightly different syntax)
I am trying to export my Postgres table to a csv on my desktop and I get this error:
ERROR: could not open file "C:\Users\blah\Desktop\countyreport.csv" for writing: Permission denied
SQL state: 42501
This is my query which I believe is the correct syntax
COPY countyreport TO 'C:\\Users\\blah\\Desktop\\countyreport.csv' DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER;
According to the user manual:
Files named in a COPY command are read or written directly by the
server, not by the client application.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-copy.html
The common mistake is to believe that the filesystem access will be that of the (client) user, but it's not. It's normal to run the postgresql server as its own user. Therefore action carried out by the server will be done as a different OS user to the client. The server is usually run as an OS user postgres.
Assuming that you are running the server on your local machine then the simplest way to fix it would be to give postgres access to your home directory or desktop. This can be done by changing the windows security settings on your home directory.
Before you do this.... Stop and think. Is this what you are looking for? If the server is in development then will it always run on the user's machine. If not then you may need to use COPY to write to the stdout. See the manual for information on this.
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How do you copy data from a file to a table in SQL? I'm using pgAdmin3 on a Macbook.
The table name is tutor, and the name of the file is tutor.rtf.
I use the following query:
COPY tutor
FROM /Users/.../tutor.rtf
WITH DELIMITER ',';
but got the error "permission denied'.
The file is not locked. So how do you solve this problem? Or is there any other quicker way to copy data from file to table except for INSERT INTO ... VALUE(); ?
COPY opens the file using the PostgreSQL server backend, so it requires that the user postgresql runs as have read permission (for COPY FROM) for the file in question. It also requires the same SQL-level access rights to the table as INSERT, but I suspect it's file permissions that're getting you here.
Most likely the postgres or postgres_ (depending on how you installed PostgreSQL) user doesn't have read access to /Users/somepath/tutor.rtf or some parent directory of that file.
The easiest solution is to use psql's \copy command, which reads the file using the client permissions, rather than those of the server, and uses a path relative to the client's current working directory. This command is not available in PgAdmin-III.
Newer PgAdmin-III versions have the Import command in the table context menu. See importing tables from file in the PgAdmin-III docs. This does the equivalent of psql's \copy command, reading the file with the access rights of the PgAdmin-III application.
Alternately you can use the server-side COPY command by making sure every directory from /Users up somepath has world-execute rights - meaning users can traverse it, cd into it, etc, but can't list its contents without r rights too. Then either set the file to group postgres and make sure it has group read rights, or make it world-readable.
I know this issue has already been raised by others, but even trying previous suggestions I still get this error...
When I try to populate a table copying from a csv file, I get a permission error.
COPY Eurasia FROM '/Users/Oritteropus/Desktop/eurasia1.csv' CSV HEADER;
ERROR: could not open file "/Users/Oritteropus/Desktop/eurasia1.csv" for reading: Permission denied
SQL state: 42501
As previously suggested in these cases, I changed the permission of the file (chmod 711 eurasia1.csv or chmod a+r eurasia1.csv) and I also changed the user rights with:
ALTER USER postgres WITH SUPERUSER; #where postgres is my user
However, I still get the same error.
I also tried to manually change the privileges from pgAdmin but seems avery privilege is already given.
I'm working on a Mac Os and I'm using PostGreSQL 9.2.4.
Any suggestion? Thanks
The best option is to change and use COPY FROM STDIN as that avoids quite a number of permissions issues.
Alternatively you can make sure that the postgres user can access the file. This rarely better than COPY FROM STDIN however for a couple reasons.
COPY TO STDOUT can conceivably corrupt your data. Because this involves file I/O by PostgreSQL if bugs exist in COPY FROM STDIN that could be a problem too.
If you are doing it on the server side because of automation/stored proc concerns, this is rarely a win, as you are combining transactional and non-transactional effects. COPY TO STDOUT and COPY FROM STDIN do not have these issues. (For example, you don't have to wonder whether the atime of the inode actually means the file was properly processed).