Actually, that same app we ship on the media is also available as a web app. The media is offered to customers who are requesting local access or that have slow or unreliable Internet access. These are the requirements we have to deal with. :-( -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Grittner [mailto:Kevin.Grittner@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 2:51 PM To: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Tsing, Vadim Subject: RE: Copying database directory "Tsing, Vadim" wrote: > Out databases vary in size, bat many of the have tables with > millions of rows. Those tables are indexed. One of the databases > that we've timed, took about 12 min to load the data and another > 10-12 min to re-create indexes. The dump file is about 400 MB. This > is by far not the largest one we will have to deal with. Any chance that you can just have the app make requests to a database on your server, and not ship the database with the software? Maybe even do this as a web app? -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin