Vlad Arkhipov <arhipov@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I discovered this issue a bit more. -j option is slowing down BLOBs > restoring. It's about 1000x times slower if you specify this option. Are you by any chance restoring from an 8.3 or older pg_dump file made on Windows? If so, it's a known issue. > Does anybody plan to fix it? Not without a complete reproducible example ... and not at all if it's the known problem. The fix for that is to update pg_dump to 8.4 or later. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance