Jeff Trout <threshar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I've seen this on my PITR restores (thankfully, they were for > fetching some old data, not because we expoded). On a 2.4ghz opteron > it took 5-50 seconds per wal segment, and there were a LOT of > segments (replay took hours and hours). I asked a few folks and was > told it is the nature of the beast. Hopefully something in 8.4 can > be done. Before we get all panicked about that, someone should try to measure the restore speed on 8.3. It's possible that this patch already alleviated the problem: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-05/msg00041.php regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
