"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> ... Now I understand that restoring log files can be slow but this is a big
> machine.
Yeah, restoring is known to be less than speedy, because essentially
zero optimization work has been done on it.
Heikki has improved matters a bit in 8.3, but I suspect it's still
not great.
regards, tom lane