Re: Problem with copying data

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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