100% CPU

<br /><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Good Morning</font><br /><br /><font face="sans-serif" size="2">I am new to
postgresand have been asked to look at a server where we truncate a table then load data.</font><br /><br /><font
face="sans-serif"size="2">The CPU has started to hit 100% usage during this process.</font><br /><br /><font
face="sans-serif"size="2">Can you please describe what steps I could take to investigate and solve this
issue?</font><br/><font face="sans-serif" size="2"> So far all I have done is run a Vacuum Analyze command using
PGAdminIII.....which appears to have made little difference.</font><br /><br /><br /><font face="sans-serif"
size="2">Thankyou<br /><br /><br /> Pete Newman<br /> Information Systems <br /> Institute of Physics<br /> Tel No 0117
9301249<br/> Fax No 0117 9301183<br /> Peter.Newman@iop.org<br /> http://www.iop.org</font><p>
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