Re: Database not browsable during COPY on PostgreSQL

On 3/6/12, Andreas Kretschmer <andreas@a-kretschmer.de> wrote:
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> Majid Azimi <majid.merkava@gmail.com> hat am 6. März 2012 um 10:01
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>> On 3/6/12, Andreas Kretschmer <andreas@a-kretschmer.de> wrote:
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>> > Majid Azimi <majid.merkava@gmail.com> hat am 6. März 2012 um 09:36
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>> >> Hi guys,
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>> >> When using COPY to restore a CSV file, PostgreSQL shows alot of
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>> >> CONTEXT:  COPY tbl_vbvdata, line 8039085:
>> >> "1648469982,20431325,1314343300,4.5,87,1,643160,1"
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>> >> Also phppgadmin shows that the real database size(4GB) but when I
>> >> choose to browse the table it shows Estimated row count to 0. I did a
>> >> VACUUM ANALYZE. After that simple SELECT queries returns 0 rows, Also:
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>> >> SELECT count(*) FROM tbl_vbvdata
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>> >> return 0. Can anyone help?
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>> > Your COPY is running inside a Transaction, PhpPgAdmin is outside, it
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>> > the not-commited rows.
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>> > Andreas
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>> I pressed CTRL+C when COPY was running and cancelled the process. Now
>> the DB size is still 4GB but no data is available for SELECT. How can
>> I commit that?
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> You can't, the whole transaction is canceled now.
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> Andreas
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I cannot regain the disk space too?