Re: COPY command problems

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Nikola Ivacic" <nikola(at)rs-pi(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: COPY command problems
Date: 2002-12-24 15:24:49
Message-ID: 19755.1040743489@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Nikola Ivacic" <nikola(at)rs-pi(dot)com> writes:
> Has somebody experienced difficulties using COPY command on large files.
> I have a large (250MB) file and each time I insert records I've got one or =
> more (< 30 of cca 1079000) corrupted
> records. The number of corrupted records is not constant (i.e. 1, 30, 7, 23=
> etc..)

I'd bet on flaky hardware --- have you run memory and disk tests? If
the COPY data is passing across a network, then network problems are
also worthy of suspicion.

regards, tom lane

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