Hi all, There have been some questions about pg_dump and huge numbers of large objects recently. I have a query about the opposite. How can restoring a database with a lot of large objects run faster? My database has a relatively piddling 13 million large objects, so dumping it isn't a problem. Restoring it is a problem though. This is for a migration from 8.4 to 9.3. The dump is taken using pg_dump from 9.3. I've run a test on a significantly smaller test system. ~4GB overall, and 1.1 million large objects. It took 2 hours, give or take. The server it's on isn't especially fast though. It seems that each "SELECT pg_catalog.lo_create('xxxxx');" is run independently and sequentially, despite having --jobs=8 specified. Is there any magic incantation, or animal sacrifice, I can make to get those lo_create() calls run in parallel? Our 9.3 production servers have 12 cores (plus HT) and SSDs, so can do many queries at the same time. Thanks -- Mike Williams -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin