On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Osahon Oduware <osahon.gis@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to utilize the "COPY" statement below to copy a .CSV file to a > table in a PostgreSQL database.: > COPY <schema>.<table_name>(<table_columns>) FROM > '\\shared\network\path\to\csv\test.csv' DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER; > > This works with a PostgreSQL database installed in a WINDOWS environment > (Windows 7), but fails with the following error with a similar PostgreSQL > database in a Linux environment (Centos 7): > org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: could not open file > "\\shared\network\path\to\csv\test.csv" for reading: No such file or > directory > > I have granted READ access to EVERYONE on the CSV folder on the network path > as depicted in the attached image. > Could someone point me to the reason for the failure in Linux?
You are invoking server side copy. This means the SERVER neads to be able to access the file under the name you've given to it.
The network path you have given is valid on windows machines ( UNC path? It's been a decade an a half since Iast used windows ), but not on linux. Typically on linux you mount the shared folder /some/where and type the path as /some/where/path/to/csv/test.csv.
You may be needing a CLIENT copy. I do not see which client program you are using, it may be some fancy GUI stuff, in which case I cannot help you. If you are using the standard "psql" tool you can just use \copy. As explained in the docs this just does "copy from stdin" ( or to stdout ) on the client side and redirects the file you give in the command line ( or you can issue a [psql ... -c "copy ...from stdin"] in a command line and feed the file via shell redirections, but, IIRC, windows shells are terrible at quoting arguments and redirecting i/o, so it may be better to avoid it). Francisco Olarte.