"Ciprian Dorin Craciun" <ciprian(dot)craciun(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Not sure if it applies to your real use-case, but if you can try doing
>> the COPY from a local file instead of across the network link, it
>> might go faster. Also, as already noted, drop the redundant index.
> It won't be that difficult to use a local file (now I'm using the
> same computer), but will it really make a difference?
Yes. I'm not sure how much, but there is nontrivial protocol overhead.
regards, tom lane