Are you sure your restoring to an empty database? If you try to restore
your dump into the database you dumped it from (without first
drop/create) it will take forever as you'll have all kinds of data
collisions (imagine every insert into a table erroring out due to
duplicate primary key).
As for the -Ft vs. -Fc size question, the tar format is not a compressed
format, while the "c"ustom format is.
Robert Treat
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 07:35, lists wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a dump I made with the command:
>
> pg_dump -a -b -Fc -f DB.dump -o -v DB
>
> then I try to restore with:
>
> pg_restore -a -d DB2 -Fc -o -v DB.dump
>
> This database is about 1.5Gb big.
>
> The dump takes abou 1 hour, but the restore takes forever!
>
> Last time I ran it, it takes more than 10 hours, when I gave up
> and stopped the process.
>
> Tried with both Ft and Fc.
>
> Another doubt: Why a dump of this DB with Ft has about the
> same size of the original DB(1.5GB) and with Fc it has about 50MB?
>
> My system is:
> P3 1Ghz, 1GB ram, Win2k, Postgres 7.2.2
> Free space ~5GB.
>
> TIA,
>
> Ricardo.
