Hi I'm currently upgrading a Posgresql 7.3.2 database to a 8.1.<something-good> I'd run pg_dump | gzip > sqldump.gz on the old system. That took about 30 hours and gave me an 90GB zipped file. Running cat sqldump.gz | gunzip | psql into the 8.1 database seems to take about the same time. Are there any tricks I can use to speed this dump+restore process up? Neither disk-io (viewed using vmstat 1) or cpu (viewed using top) seems to be the bottleneck. The database contains quite alot of BLOB's, thus the size. Jesper -- Jesper Krogh
