>>> Decibel! <decibel@xxxxxxxxxxx> 08/27/07 4:00 PM >>>
> > > They're running version 8.1.4
>
> As for your pg_dump idea... why not just do a CREATE TABLE AS SELECT *
> FROM bloated_table? That would likely be much faster than messing around
> with pg_dump.
He wanted to upgrade to 8.2.4. CREATE TABLE AS won't get him there.
> > > They're running version 8.1.4 on 4-way dell boxes
> > > with 4Gig of memory on each box attached to RAID-10 disk arrays.
>
> What kind of disk hardware is this running on? A good raid 10 array with
> write caching should be able to handle a 200G database fairly well
What other details were you looking for?
-Kevin
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