copy command bug

The copy command fails to load a large csv file (>2GB) with a "Could not
stat file" error.  This occurs on Windows with all versions since 10.7.
It happens because fstat() on Windows fails with large csv files.

Example:
COPY table_name FROM 'filename.csv' WITH CSV HEADER
succeeds with small files and fails with larger ones.

In my tests, using other methods to load the file, e.g.
COPY table_name FROM PROGRAM 'cmd /c \"type filename.csv"' WITH CSV HEADER
succeeds with all file sizes but runs /10-30% slower/, which is a
significant difference.

Thanks, Mary

Mary LaClair

Vice President, Software Development | Caliper Corporation

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P.S.
I downloaded the  master source and implemented a patch but was unable
to test because I do not have a version of Visual Studio (11 or 12) old
enough to try it:
Here's the change to BeginCopyFrom() in copy.c, starting at line 3529:
  {
unsigned short st_mode;

            cstate->copy_file = AllocateFile(cstate->filename,
PG_BINARY_R);
            if (cstate->copy_file == NULL)
            {
                /* copy errno because ereport subfunctions might change
it */
                int            save_errno = errno;

                ereport(ERROR,
                        (errcode_for_file_access(),
                         errmsg("could not open file \"%s\" for
reading: %m",
                                cstate->filename),
                         (save_errno == ENOENT || save_errno == EACCES) ?
                         errhint("COPY FROM instructs the PostgreSQL
server process to read a file. "
                                 "You may want a client-side facility
such as psql's \\copy.") : 0));
            }

#ifndef WIN32
            {
            struct _stat32i64 st;
            // need the i64 version to handle files > 1GB
            if (_fstat32i64(fileno(cstate->copy_file), &st))
                ereport(ERROR,
                        (errcode_for_file_access(),
                         errmsg("could not stat file \"%s\": %m",
                                cstate->filename)));
            st_mode = st.st_mode;
            }
#else
            {
            struct stat st;
        if (fstat(fileno(cstate->copy_file), &st))
                ereport(ERROR,
                        (errcode_for_file_access(),
                         errmsg("could not stat file \"%s\": %m",
                                cstate->filename)));
            st_mode = st.st_mode;
            }
#endif

            if (S_ISDIR(st_mode))
                ereport(ERROR,
                        (errcode(ERRCODE_WRONG_OBJECT_TYPE),
                         errmsg("\"%s\" is a directory",
cstate->filename)));
        }