Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Aniko.Badzong@swisscom.com wrote:
>
> > test:/opt/pgsql# echo "copy test from '/data/log/bla';" | psql logdb
> > COPY
> >
> > But when I try to execute it as root user I get the following error:
> >
> > [est/data/log] su - postgres -c "echo 'copy test from
> /data/log/bla;'|
> > psql logdb"
> > ERROR: syntax error at or near "/" at character 16
> > LINE 1: copy test from /data/log/bla;
>
> This is clearly not the same line. The quotes are not in the same
> position as in the line above.
>
> su - postgres -c "psql logdb -c 'copy test from \'data/log/bla\''"
Or, preferably:
$ echo "copy test from '/data/log/bla';" | sudo -u postgres psql logdb
HTH,
Owen