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+# Copyright Materialize, Inc. and contributors. All rights reserved.
+#
+# Use of this software is governed by the Business Source License
+# included in the LICENSE file at the root of this repository.
+#
+# As of the Change Date specified in that file, in accordance with
+# the Business Source License, use of this software will be governed
+# by the Apache License, Version 2.0.
+
+# This test fails different depending on where it gets run from.
+#
+# psql cli will see this failure
+#  COPY FROM: error: reqwest error: error sending request for url (http://localhost/does_not_exist): error trying to connect: tcp connect error: Connection refused (os error 111)
+#
+# When run from testdrive, the command doesn't get beyond binding, and we see this error:
+#  ERROR: binary encoding of list types is not implemented
+
+# COPY FROM expressions should immediately succeed or fail on their first runs
+$ set-max-tries max-tries=1
+
+$ postgres-execute connection=postgres://mz_system:materialize@${testdrive.materialize-internal-sql-addr}
+ALTER SYSTEM SET enable_copy_from_remote = true;
+
+> CREATE TABLE t1 (a bigint list);
+
+> COPY INTO t1 FROM 'http://localhost/does_not_exist' (FORMAT PARQUET);