On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Martín Marqués
<martin.marques@gmail.com> wrote:
> What happens if you use COPY ... FROM with the same data?
I will try that, but if you look at pg_stat_activity the full command
is a COPY <table> (<columns), FROM STDIN.
> Are you sure the process hangs (strange thing is that you can't
> terminate the backend)? Could it be that it looks like it hung, but
> it's actually COPYing a huge chunk of data?
The file that psql is reading from is tiny - less than 3kB so that's
definitely not the issue...
-Dave