psycopg2.ProgrammingError: syntax error at or near "stdin" error when trying to copy_from redshift

Question

I am having this problem when I am trying to copy to AWS redshift. This is the code I am trying to run:

with open('path/to/files, 'rb') as fo:
    cursor.copy_from(fo, 'schema.table', sep=',')
    cursor.commit()

And I encountered the error:

psycopg2.ProgrammingError: syntax error at or near "stdin" 
LINE 1: ...Y schema.table FROM stdin WITH...

I am running python 3.5 with psycopg2. Hope that you guys can help! Thx in advance!

Answer 1

AWS Redshift is not PostgreSQL, though it supports a subset of PostgreSQL syntax and functionality.

It does not have COPY ... FROM STDIN.

See the manual for how to use COPY on Redshift.