Re: \COPY command and indexes in tables

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Matthias Apitz <guru(at)unixarea(dot)de>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: \COPY command and indexes in tables
Date: 2020-11-19 07:57:33
Message-ID: 044d427bf8a91959da6cb20394c166be734afe02.camel@cybertec.at
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On Thu, 2020-11-19 at 08:38 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> We load large tables in some customer installation (some millions of rows)
> from file with:
>
> TRUNCATE TABLE tableName ;
> \COPY tableName FROM 'fileName' WITH ( DELIMITER '|' )
>
> and got to know that the loading nearly stops (without any real CPU
> consumption) in the middle. The wild guess is that we forgot to DROP the indexes on
> the tables.

If it does not consume CPU, it must be stalled somehow.

Are there any wait events in "pg_stat_activity".

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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