Hello, I recently attempted an upgrade on one of our servers from 8.2.6 to 8.4.1. I created two separate dumps for the database, separating the schema and data. I did separate dumps because I need to expand the size of a column in one of the tables. After the schema restore, everything was going seemingly well until I started the data restore. The data seemed to be restoring at a reasonable rate, considering the database is in excess of 17GB. After approximately 30 minutes, I checked the size of the data directory to try to estimate the total restore time - it was less than 1GB. An hour later, the restore was stopped, and disabled autovacuum in postgresql.conf; this made no change. Two hours later or so, the restore peaked at 2.2GB, and the upgrade was aborted. I copied the schema/data dumps to a testing machine so I could see how long the restore would have actually taken - in 24 hours, the data directory was just shy of 4GB in size. Searching the documentation and archives, I don't see any clear explanation. When schema/data are separated, is the restore treated as INSERTs? Is there something else obvious I am missing, or that I can check? Regards, -- Glen Barber -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
