On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Craig Sturman wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've currently got a couple of pg databases (6.5) at work on a RedHat box
> that I'm looking to consolidate and move to a server with 7.2 installed.
> I'm having issues with copying the data however. Neither pg_dump and the
> copy command are able to copy the data over. I receive the following error:
>
> wdcindex=> COPY clients TO '/home/craig/clients' USING DELIMITERS ',';
> ERROR: COPY command, running in backend with effective uid 40, could not
> open file '/home/craig/clients' for writing. Errno = Permission denied
> (13).
> wdcindex=>
This error is because the file permissions will not allow opening of it.
Try and use chmod command to give appropriate rwx to the file this will
solve that problem
HTH
>
> /home/craig is that user's directory. Can anyone think of what my problem
> is here? Or perhaps recommend a program I could use to extract the data via
> an odbc connection like SQL Server's import data utility? (don't have SQL
> Server where I am currently) Since this is postgresql 6.5, PGAdmin II won't
> connect to it. PHPPGAdmin is install on that server but is having similar
> problems exporting the data.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Even just exporting the schema would
> be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Craig S.
>
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