Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca> writes:
> I eventually clued in and made a TOC and removed all of the Slony items,
> but I'm still curious to know what exactly pg_restore had been doing for
> the last hour or so.
You tell us ;-). You've got the test case, attach to it with a debugger
and find out what it's doing.
regards, tom lane