Re: ineffiency of pg_restore

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jie Liang <jie(at)stbernard(dot)com>
Cc: "'Bruce Momjian '" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "'pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org '" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "'pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ineffiency of pg_restore
Date: 2002-08-12 22:38:26
Message-ID: 19334.1029191906@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jie Liang <jie(at)stbernard(dot)com> writes:
> pg_restore give admin a lot of flexabilities, it can restore any object
> from a single dump file. But if the table is very big, e.g. 2M records,
> it will take a long time to restore because it use INSERTs.

This is demonstrably not the case --- at least not by default. You
get the same commands you would've gotten from pg_dump. Sure you
didn't create the dump file with "-d" ?

regards, tom lane

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