Re: Is using 'COPY <table> FROM <file>' without superuser privileges possible?

--- Jorge Godoy <[email protected]> escribió: > 
> Hi.
> 
> 
> I have to feed a database with several hundred
> entries and I am
> importing all those with PostgreSQL's 'COPY <table>
> FROM <file>'
> command. It works great when I'm using my superuser
> but it fails for
> any other user with a message specifying that I
> should either:
> 
>     * use my superuser
>     * make these users superuser
>     * or use 'stdin' (this is the recommendation on
> the error message)
>       as source for my input.
> 
> Since I can't make other superusers (there are
> several other databases
> there that should be protected from common
> employees) I was trying to
> use stdin as data source.
> 
> Anybody has tried it? I don't know how to
> concatenate the thousands of
> lines from the output of a 'file.readlines()' (or
> something like that)
> to my cursor.execute() command. Using something like
> "cursor.execute(query_sql, file.readlines())" didn't
> work and gave me
> an error message saying 'not all arguments
> converted' (query_sql is
> the copy from command). 


Hello:

Try this idea.

mycursor.execute('copy '+table+' from stdin;')
lines=file.read()
for n in lines:
     mycursor.conn.conn.putline(n)
mycursor.conn.conn.putline('\\.\n') #end of insertion

mycursor.conn.conn.endcopy()

myconnection.commit() #to make insertions available





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