Jeff Eckermann <jeff_eckermann@yahoo.com> forwards:
> --- Dawn Vu <dvu@satx.rr.com> wrote:
>> 1. COPY [tablename] TO '/../datafile' seems to have a
>> limitation when datafile is bigger than 2G. Is
>> this a postgresql limitation?
There is no such limitation in the Postgres sources. However, if
you've built on a platform where 64-bit file offset support is not
default, you may well find that such a problem exists in the compiled
code. What is your platform, anyway?
>> 2. I use COPY to transfer data from one machine to
>> another
>> over the network using stdin and stdout without
>> having
>> to write data to intermediate file.
Should work fine.
>> The reason why I ask this question is because I
>> was
>> transferring 41M+ records and one hour into it,
>> the process
>> got a calloc error. What seems to be the
>> limitation here?
Can't tell with so little information. What platform? What Postgres
version? What is the table schema?
regards, tom lane
