On Tuesday 19 February 2008 13:22:58 Tom Lane wrote: > Richard Huxton <dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Douglas J Hunley wrote: > >> I spent a whopping seven hours restoring a database late Fri nite for a > > > > Oh, and have you tweaked the configuration settings for the restore? > > Lots of work_mem, turn fsync off, that sort of thing. > > maintenance_work_mem, to be more specific. If that's too small it will > definitely cripple restore speed. I'm not sure fsync would make much > difference, but checkpoint_segments would. See > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/populate.html#POPULATE-PG-DUMP from the postgresql.conf i posted: ~ $ grep maint postgresql.conf maintenance_work_mem = 256MB # min 1MB thx for the pointer to the URL. I've made note of the recommendations therein for next time. > > Also: why did you choose -o ... was there a real need to? I can see > that being pretty expensive. > I was under the impression our application made reference to OIDs. I'm now doubting that heavily <g> and am seeking confirmation. -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 http://doug.hunley.homeip.net I've got trouble with the wife again - she came into the bar looking for me and I asked her for her number. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
