Touche, the directory Documents did not have permissions.
thanks
R.
Nigel J. Andrews wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2003, Ramon Alonso Allende wrote:
>
>
>>Hi I am using postgres 7.3 in macos X and i am not able to insert a
>>file into a table all i see is the following error
>>
>>insert into archivo (d_id,path) values (1,
>>lo_import('/Users/allende/Documents/PDF/Networks/10356399.pdf'));
>>
>>ERROR: lo_import: can't open unix file
>>"/Users/allende/Documents/PDF/Networks/10356399.pdf": Permission denied
>>
>>
>>I have done it as a regular user and as postgres user and still does
>>not work.
>
>
> But does the user the postmaster runs as have permission to read that file? I
> would guess not. If you've looked at the file permissions and think it can then
> also check the permissions on the directories leading to that file.
>
>
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