On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 11:48 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>> I'm trying to do a parallel restore with pg_restore -j but I'm only
>> seeing one CPU being used really. The file is custom format, but was
>> made by pg_dump for pgsql 8.3. Is that a problem? Do I need a backup
>> made with 8.4 to run parallel restore?
>
> Yes I believe but I don't recall. You could dump the TOC and note
> differences.
I kinda figured, I'm making a dump with pg84 now to test with. I'm
really hoping for a noticeable improvement in restore times, as we're
in the 1.5 to 2 hour range right now.