Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes:
> Douglas J Hunley wrote:
>> I spent a whopping seven hours restoring a database late Fri nite for a
> Oh, and have you tweaked the configuration settings for the restore?
> Lots of work_mem, turn fsync off, that sort of thing.
maintenance_work_mem, to be more specific. If that's too small it will
definitely cripple restore speed. I'm not sure fsync would make much
difference, but checkpoint_segments would. See
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/populate.html#POPULATE-PG-DUMP
Also: why did you choose -o ... was there a real need to? I can see
that being pretty expensive.
regards, tom lane