Re: pg_restore taking 4 hours! - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: pg_restore taking 4 hours!
Date
Msg-id 200412131025.54587.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: pg_restore taking 4 hours!  (Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com>)
List pgsql-performance
Vivek,

> The biggest improvement in speed to restore time I have discovered is
> to increase the checkpoint segments.  I bump mine to about 50.  And
> moving the pg_xlog to a separate physical disk helps a lot there, too.

Don't leave it at 50; if you have the space on your log array, bump it up to
256.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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