On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Tory M Blue <tmblue@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm working with slon and the index portion for at least 3 of my tables take
> hours to complete and thus with this instance of slony being a wide area
> replica, sessions time out and slon fails to complete.
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> So I'm looking at dumping the schema without index information, install that
> on the slon slave and replicate that way, once replication of the data is
> done, I can run commands to create the indexes.
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> But I'm not 100% if there are tools or private scripts written to pull
> indexes from a schema only dump and then allow for an easy recreation of the
> indexes at the end of the slon replication process (once all sets are
> replicated)?
"pg_dump --section" can be used for that. pre-data includes table
definitions and everything other than post-data dumps. post-data has
contraint, trigger, index and rules.
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Michael
