Re: backup and recovery

On Mar 18, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Mark M. Huber wrote:

> It seams that any backup and recovery sucks. My main db backup takes 
> over two hours to complete and 13 hours to recover what am I doing 
> wrong? Any hints?ideas? Recommendations?
>
>

Increasing sort_mem dramatically (say, 128M) will greatly speed things 
up - especially with foriegn key creation and index creation (Those two 
things are what takes the longest in a PG restore).  Be sure to turn it 
back down to something normal after the store (If you didn't change it 
on a single session)

However a 500k row table is not terribly big.. How big is the dump in 
terms of MB?

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Jeff Trout 
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