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 -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4699 Databestuurder / Data manager Sentrum vir Navorsing oor Evaluasie, Wetenskap en Tegnologie Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology Universiteit Stellenbosch. "Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right." Ephesians 6:1 -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin