querying while copying into a table and optimizations

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Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:22:43 -0500 (CDT)
From: davidgn@servidor.unam.mx
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Hi
This is postgresql 7.4
I am trying to check that postgres is updating a table.
I have a pretty large ascii table  file (+- 210 Mb) which I am copying into a
table with pgsql, but it is taking a long time, and any select query I do to the
table returns me 0 rows

Is there any way to ask postgres to update the data more frequently or some way
to make it end sooner?
I am a bit clueless as to what can I do to the configuration files to optimize
this copy.

Thank you

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