Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > When schema/data are separated, is the restore treated as INSERTs? No, but you'll still get killed on performance by other factors, particularly incremental index building and retail foreign key checks. I recommend a close read of http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/populate.html What you'll want to do is separate the load into three phases corresponding to the order that a combined schema+data dump does it. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general