"Jeff Trout" <threshar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Dec 12, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > >> 8 seconds for a single archive recovery is very slow in consideration of >> this machine. Even single threaded that seems slow. > > 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, I'm not sure what you guys' expectations are, but if you're restoring 5 minutes worth of database traffic in 8 seconds I wouldn't be complaining. Depending on your transaction mix and what percentage of it is read-only select queries you might reasonably expect the restore to take as long as it took to generate them... -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's RemoteDBA services! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match