On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 10:45:28 -0500
David Gauthier <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to run a PG client side "\copy" command from a perl script. I
> tried using $dbh->do("\\copy ...") but it barffed when it saw the '\'...
> ERROR: syntax error at or near "\"
>
> I can do this with a command line approach, attaching to the DB then run
> using...
Duh! I just realized that what I proposed with system() is a command line
approach.
As David Johnston mentionned, you can use the SQL COPY command.
However, you need then to deal with permissions so that the server may write
the file, so I wonder what approach is cleaner?
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