From c7b9dbbc101d067d8b3b2789cd6a8c4d6b43ebf4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Kiefer Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 16:26:52 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update README with additional limitations --- README.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 644f70388..6209a9cbe 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -192,6 +192,12 @@ actively working to resolve: - Anyone using TimescaleDB currently needs superuser privileges (this is getting fixed very soon) +- `create_hypertable()` can only be run on an empty table +- `COPY`ing a dataset will currently put all data in the same chunk, even if +chunk size goes over max size. For now we recommend breaking down large +files for `COPY` (e.g., large CSVs) into smaller files that are slightly +larger than max_chunk size (currently 1GB). +We provide `scripts/migrate_data.sh` to help with this. - Custom user-created triggers on hypertables currently will not work (i.e., fire) - `drop_chunks()` (see our [API Reference](docs/API.md)) is currently only