On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:30:02 +0100, Osahon Oduware <osahon....@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* > Francisco already pointed out that Linux doesn't understand the backslashes in the file path, however it should be noted that Windows *does* understand forward slashes and that [modulo disk names in Windows] you can use forward slash paths on both systems. George -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
