Re: 8.3 / 8.2.6 restore comparison - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: 8.3 / 8.2.6 restore comparison
Date
Msg-id 20080207084901.7fcf418a@jd-laptop
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In response to Re: 8.3 / 8.2.6 restore comparison  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:11:32 -0500
Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:

> * Joshua D. Drake (jd@commandprompt.com) wrote:
> > Ergghh o.k. I am definitely missing something in the environment. By
> > your numbers I should be well over 100GB restored at 2.5 hours. I am
> > not. I am only 38GB in.
>
> I'm guessing you've checked this, so don't shoot me if you have,
> but....

Uhh yeah :)

>How was the "restore file" built?  Does it create the
> indexes, primary keys, FKs, whatever, before loading the data?
> That'd slow things down tremendously..  Or if it's creating them
> while loading the data, there would be large pauses while it's
> building the indexes...
>

Absolutely correct. it would. This dump was created using pg_dumpall.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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