Hi Tom,
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> writes:
>> When schema/data are separated, is the restore treated as INSERTs?
>
> No, but you'll still get killed on performance by other factors,
> particularly incremental index building and retail foreign key checks.
> I recommend a close read of
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/populate.html
>
> What you'll want to do is separate the load into three phases
> corresponding to the order that a combined schema+data dump
> does it.
>
Thanks for the pointer.
Regards,
--
Glen Barber
