On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 04:36:56PM +0200, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Almost always, when you get a cascade of error messages, the thing to
> look at is the *first* error, or first few errors. Not the last ones.
>
> In this case I'd guess that a COPY command failed and psql is now trying
> to process the COPY data as SQL commands, but you'll never be able to
> tell any more than that without seeing the error message that the COPY
> reported.
>
Thanks Tom. That is something that makes a lot of sense.
I have done two things and one or both of them made a difference:
moved the database to a partition with more free space and I deleted and
recreated the database.
I could successfully import the data now.
Regards
Johann
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