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Subject: Re: Export tab delimited from mysql to postgres.
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:23:41 +1000,
  Theo Galanakis <Theo.Galanakis@lonelyplanet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 	Could you provide a example of how to do this?
> 
> 	I actually ended up exporting the data as Insert statements, which
> strips out cf/lf within varchars. However it takes an eternity to import
> 200,000 records... 24 hours infact???? Is this normal?

Are you doing the load in one transaction?