On October 10, 2018 2:15:19 PM PDT, Ravi Krishna <srkrishna1@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> pg_restore doesn't take locks on the table for the COPY, it does so >> because creating the table takes an exclusive lock. > > >Interesting. I seem to recollect reading here that I can't have >concurrent COPY on the same table because of the lock. >To give an example: > >If I have a large file with say 400 million rows, can I first split it >into 10 files of 40 million rows each and then fire up 10 different >COPY sessions , each reading from a split file, but copying into the >same table. I thought not. It will be great if we can do this. Yes, you can. Andres -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.