"Jesper Krogh" <jesper@xxxxxxxx> writes: > gzip does not seem to be the bottleneck, on restore is psql the nr. 1 > consumer on cpu-time. Hm. We've seen some situations where readline mistakenly decides that the input is interactive and wastes lots of cycles doing useless processing (like keeping history). Try "psql -n" and see if that helps. regards, tom lane