Re: copy losing information

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Silvela, Jaime (Exchange)" <JSilvela(at)Bear(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: copy losing information
Date: 2006-07-26 21:05:13
Message-ID: 18116.1153947913@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Silvela, Jaime (Exchange) wrote:
>> No lines contain quotes. And the same file will sometimes be fully
>> imported, and sometimes lose data. I'm thinking that under heavy loads,
>> the database is discarding INSERTS.

> I don't think that's very likely.

Especially not since he says he's using COPY --- any sort of error would
be all-or-nothing.

Personally I'm wondering about individual rows getting dropped on the
client side.

regards, tom lane

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