Re: backup and recovery

That sounds like a brilliant idea, who do we say it to make it so?

Mark H

-----Original Message-----
From: Naomi Walker [mailto:nwalker@eldocomp.com]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 8:19 AM
To: Mark M. Huber
Cc: Naomi Walker; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] backup and recovery


That brings up a good point.  It would be extremely helpful to add two
parameters to pg_dump.  One, to add how many rows to insert before a
commit, and two, to live through X number of errors before dying (and
putting the "bad" rows in a file).


At 10:15 AM 3/19/2004, Mark M. Huber wrote:
>What it was that I guess the pg_dump makes one large transaction and our
>shell script wizard wrote a perl program to  add a commit transaction
>every 500 rows or what every you set. Also I should have said that we were
>doing the recovery with the insert statements created from pg_dump. So...
>my 500000 row table recovery took < 10 Min.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Mark H
>
>

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Naomi Walker                         Chief Information Officer
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