Re: pg_dump/restore problems

[Bob Lunney <bob_lunney@xxxxxxxxx>]

Glen,

Did you drop the indexes prior to the restore?  If not, try doing so and recreating the indexes afterwards.  That will also speed up the data load.

Bob Lunney

--- On Mon, 2/15/10, Glen Brown <gkbrown22@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Glen Brown <gkbrown22@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: pg_dump/restore problems
To: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, February 15, 2010, 1:25 PM

I am not sure where I should post this but I am running into problems trying to restore a large table. I am running 8.4.1 on all servers. The table is about 25gb in size and most of that is toasted. It has about 2.5m records. When I dump this table using pg_dump -Fc it creates a 15 gb file. I am trying to restore in into a database that has 100gb of free disk space and it consumes it all and fails to finish the restore. The table is not partitioned and has a few indexes on it. What can I do?

 

thanks

-glen

Glen Brown