If your data comes from a non-unix machine then you might have
carragereturn-linefeed pairs as newline delimiter. I would get a
broken-pipe in this situation. I wrote a perl script (on the unix
machine) to remove the carraige return ('\r') so that only the line
feed was left ('\n'). This solved my problem.
> I have some problems with importing a large txt db into postgres ... I try to use the \copy db from xyz to import
froma tabulator spaced textfile ... it takes 2-3sec then a "broken pipe" comes up and psql is beeing left ....
Regards,
Kenneth R. Mort <kenmort@mort.port.net>
TreeTop Research
Brooklyn, NY, USA