>>>>> "JS" == Joseph Shraibman <jks@selectacast.net> writes:
JS> Indexes aren't as big a deal. Reindexing is less painful than
JS> dump/restore. It could still lead to significant downtime for very
JS> large databases (at least the for the tables that are being
JS> reindexed), but not nearly as much.
Well, for me the create index part of the restore is what takes about
3x the time for the data load. Total about 4 hours. The dump takes 1
hour.
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