Re: WAL and pg_dump

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> As I recall, the initial backup of our 360GB (or so) database took
> about 6 hours and the restore only took about 2 hours.

Really?  I'd certainly have guessed the opposite (mainly because of
index build time, constraint checking, etc during reload).  Could it
be that compression of the pg_dump output is swamping all else during
the backup phase?

            regards, tom lane