Re: Tuning postgres for fast restore? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Guillaume Lelarge
Subject Re: Tuning postgres for fast restore?
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Msg-id 499FA9E7.1040109@lelarge.info
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In response to Tuning postgres for fast restore?  (Tino Schwarze <postgresql@tisc.de>)
Responses Re: Tuning postgres for fast restore?  (Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>)
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Tino Schwarze a écrit :
> [...]
> I'm going to pg_restore a database dump of about 220 GiB (uncompressed,
> but most data is BLOBs). The machine has 8 GiB of memory and 8 cores.
> Is there any advice to speed up restoring, postgresql.conf-wise?
>
> I already have a script which does the data loading and index creation
> in parallel. I'm looking for advice regarding shared_mem, work_mem and
> maintenance_mem - shall I raise them?
>

You should definitely raise shared_buffers and maintenance_work_mem.

> I currently have:
> shared_buffers = 240MB
> work_mem = 4096               # no units here, d'oh!
> maintenance_work_mem = 150000

When there's no unit, work_mem and maintenance_work_mem are in KB. You
didn't tell us your PostgreSQL release, but shared_buffers can be set at
least to 1GB and maintenance_work_mem to 512MB. You can also raise
checkpoint_segments.

Regards.


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