Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Douglas J Hunley wrote: >> I spent a whopping seven hours restoring a database late Fri nite for a
> Oh, and have you tweaked the configuration settings for the restore? > Lots of work_mem, turn fsync off, that sort of thing. maintenance_work_mem, to be more specific. If that's too small it will definitely cripple restore speed. I'm not sure fsync would make much difference, but checkpoint_segments would. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/populate.html#POPULATE-PG-DUMP Also: why did you choose -o ... was there a real need to? I can see that being pretty expensive. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
