Re: Restore performance?

[Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jesper Krogh wrote:
> 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? 

If you can have both database systems up at the same time, you could 
pg_dump | psql.

Regards,
Andreas