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

Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> Alternatively and actually even better and more secure would be
> passing the fd directly from the client to the server over the socket.

Sure ... on the platforms that support that, for the connection types
for which they support it.  But I think that in the long run we'd regret
inventing any SQL operations whose semantics depend on the transport
mechanism.

            regards, tom lane