On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:40:20 -0800 (PST) Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > By the way, what does your schema look like? I created an 80M row fk > table and 20K row pk table with an int4 key between them and indexes on > the two key fields. It took about 25 minutes on my not terribly fast > system using 7.4b5 to make the foreign key between them. It might have > been faster if I'd raised sort_mem to something larger than 8192. > i missed the start of this thread... but unless you are running 7.4 adding an FK (restore) is very slow. ZIt is fixed in 7.4.. especially w/lots of sort mem. But the need still exists for a faster backup & restore. I've had a couple threads on this in I think -admin and -performance listts. > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html -- -- Jeff Trout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.jefftrout.com/ http://www.stuarthamm.net/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend