"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... Now I understand that restoring log files can be slow but this is a big > machine. Yeah, restoring is known to be less than speedy, because essentially zero optimization work has been done on it. Heikki has improved matters a bit in 8.3, but I suspect it's still not great. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq