location & permissions for VRT file? about pgsql-ogr-fdw

[Brent-Wood]

Thanks Paul, appreciated.

Found it...

I had (sourced from an example at: #26 )

CREATE SERVER specify_vrt
FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER ogr_fdw
OPTIONS (
--datasource '/var/lib/postgresql/SpecifyQuery3.vrt',
--datasource '/home/woodb/Downloads/SpecifyQuery3.vrt',
--datasource '/home/woodb/fdw/SpecifyQuery3.vrt',
datasource '/tmp/SpecifyQuery3.vrt',
format 'VRT');

Finally found something not quite right... format should be: 'OGR_VRT'

Then it works fine!!!

Many thanks for all your efforts in providing such fantastic tools for people like me to play with... and finding time to help us use them...

[pramsey]

Well, the database will be attempting to access the file as the user the database is running under (usually postgres) so unless that user has full access not just to the file, but to every directory containing the file (/home, /home/woodb, /home/woodb/fdw, etc). A common mistake is to set the file world readable, but not allow access into a containing directory (home directories are commonly initialized with permissions set to 0700).

[robe2]

I think this ticket can be closed?