>>>>> "TL" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
TL> Wes <wespvp@syntegra.com> writes:
>> There's more than 250 million rows. If I remember right, it's ballpark 25%
>> data reload, 75% index/foreign constraint rebuild. Pg_dumpall is something
>> like 3 hours or so.
TL> FWIW, increasing sort_mem for the reload process would probably help
TL> with the index and FK rebuilds. (8.0 rejiggers things so that the
I shaved significant time from 7.4.x restores by bumping up the
checkpoint_segments to 50. My dumps currently take about 1.5 hours
over a 100Mbit ethernet (server is on gig ethernet, dumping client is
on 100Mbit).
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