Re: VACUUMs take twice as long across all nodes

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 05:24:33PM +0100, Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
> Actually, you need to get the schema from the master node, and can take
> the data from a slave. In mixing dumps like that, you must realize that
> there are two seperate parts in the schema dump: "table definitions" and
> "constraints". Do get a restorable backup you need to put the table
> definitions stuff before your data, and the constraints after the data
> copy.

This will work, yes, but you don't get a real point-in-time dump this
way.  (In any case, we're off the -performance charter now, so if
anyone wants to pursue this, I urge you to take it to the Slony
list.)

A

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