I'm trying to import a file into a table in Postgres. I'm unable to use COPY as I'm not a superuser. Thus, I'm using \copy. Based on the little I'm able to find online I came up with the following code:<\p> 
...
my $data_file = "data.tsv";

my $s2 = "\copy (" . $tableName . ") FROM '" . $data_file . "'";
$dbh->do($s2);
...

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However, when I run the script I get the following error:

DBD::Pg::db do failed: ERROR:  syntax error at or near ""
LINE 1: py (testingtable) FROM 'data.tsv'
        ^ at ./dbcopy.pl line 48.

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What is the correct syntax?

Thx!

In reply to Correct syntax for using \copy to import a file into a Postgres db by BruceDB

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