On Tue, Apr 04/23/13, 2013 at 03:11:21PM -0500, Kirk Wythers wrote:
> I would like to run the COPY command as a user other than "postgres".
> I find it a bit of a pain (or at least requiring an extra step or two)
> to have the postgres user own the files that I am creating with COPY
> TO. Here is a simple example where the location
> '/some/path/to/file/file.csv' is owned by another user and it would be
> very spiffy if I could run the COPY TO as that user. Any ideas?
>
You should use \copy if you're using psql. That will run on the client
side, as the user running psql.
-Ryan Kelly