Re: COPY threads

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Ravi Krishna <srkrishna1(at)aol(dot)com>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)gmail(dot)com>,laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at,Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com>,PostgreSQL Mailing Lists <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: COPY threads
Date: 2018-10-10 21:18:10
Message-ID: 10F9B024-556C-4C8E-B8F5-9461A4696BCA@anarazel.de
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On October 10, 2018 2:15:19 PM PDT, Ravi Krishna <srkrishna1(at)aol(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> pg_restore doesn't take locks on the table for the COPY, it does so
>> because creating the table takes an exclusive lock.
>
>
>Interesting. I seem to recollect reading here that I can't have
>concurrent COPY on the same table because of the lock.
>To give an example:
>
>If I have a large file with say 400 million rows, can I first split it
>into 10 files of 40 million rows each and then fire up 10 different
>COPY sessions , each reading from a split file, but copying into the
>same table. I thought not. It will be great if we can do this.

Yes, you can.

Andres
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