Re: pg_restore and FK constraints with large dbs

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Jeff wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:40:20 -0800 (PST)
> Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > By the way, what does your schema look like?  I created an 80M row fk
> > table and 20K row pk table with an int4 key between them and indexes on
> > the two key fields.  It took about 25 minutes on my not terribly fast
> > system using 7.4b5 to make the foreign key between them.  It might have
> > been faster if I'd raised sort_mem to something larger than 8192.
> >
>
> i missed the start of this thread... but unless you are running 7.4
> adding an FK (restore) is very slow.  ZIt is fixed in 7.4.. especially
> w/lots of sort mem.

Yeah.  At the start of the discussion I believe 7.4RC2 was mentioned
as the version which is why I'm surprised at the difference in times.