Re: Problem with copying data

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Klaas Dellschaft <klaasd(at)uni-koblenz(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Problem with copying data
Date: 2007-04-09 18:59:14
Message-ID: 20070409185914.GI10785@alvh.no-ip.org
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Klaas Dellschaft wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently trying to copy two large files (1.6 GB and 3.5 GB) with a
> "COPY FROM" into my database. But I'm waiting for the completion of this
> job since more than 24h. I'm working under Linux and with "top" I can
> see the two processes which should copy the data but most of the time
> they are not working. Very seldom they are using some CPU time and then
> get idle again.

Are there indexes or foreign keys in the tables? Check constraints?
Other things we should know about?

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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