On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Hans Zaunere <lists@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > We're using a statement like this to dump between 500K and >5 million rows. > > COPY(SELECT SomeID FROM SomeTable WHERE SomeColumn > '0') > TO '/dev/shm/SomeFile.csv' Wait, are you really creating a .csv file in shared memory? Can such a thing even work? If you're not creating a file in /dev/shm, where is it being built? On the main OS drive? the battery backed cached RAID array?
