"patrick keshishian" <pkeshish@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > With these settings and running: > pg_restore -vaOd dbname dbname.DUMP If you had mentioned you were using random nondefault switches, we'd have told you not to. -a in particular is a horrid idea performancewise --- a standard schema-plus-data restore goes way faster because it's doing index builds and foreign key checks wholesale instead of incrementally. > Is this because the -c option drops all foreign keys and > so the restore goes faster? Should this be the preferred, > recommended and documented method to run pg_restore? It is documented in recent versions of the documentation: see http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/populate.html particularly the last section. regards, tom lane
