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From: Zhe Li <li@ground.cs.columbia.edu>
Subject: DB population problem
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I have a flat table of data and want to insert them in a table just created.
Hating to write a  specific program to do this, I simply create a file
with all postquel statements(a set of append(attr_i=value_i) ). After I
invoke emacs in monitor mode and cp the file to the "/tmp/PQxxxxx", I type
"\g". A silent answer given by the system is "memory fault". 

Any idea about this?( It seems I do have the write permission to the
temporary file that emacs creates ,though). Any better way to populate a
database? Any facility such as "monitor -f postquelfile " ?


Thanks!
--zhe li