Re: Best settings to load a fresh database - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Best settings to load a fresh database
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In response to Best settings to load a fresh database  ("Campbell, Lance" <lance@illinois.edu>)
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On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Campbell, Lance<lance@illinois.edu> wrote:
> PostgreSQL 8.3
> Linux RedHat 4.X
> 24G of memory
>
> When loading a file generated from pg_dumpall is there a key setting in the
> configuration file that would allow the load to work faster.

The ones I can think of are cranking up work_mem and
maintenance_work_mem and disabling fsync.  Be sure to renable fsync
afterwards if you value your data.

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