Jesper Krogh wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm currently upgrading a Posgresql 7.3.2 database to a
> 8.1.<something-good>
>
> I'd run pg_dump | gzip > sqldump.gz on the old system. That took about
> 30 hours and gave me an 90GB zipped file. Running
> cat sqldump.gz | gunzip | psql
> into the 8.1 database seems to take about the same time. Are there
> any tricks I can use to speed this dump+restore process up?
If you can have both database systems up at the same time, you could
pg_dump | psql.
Regards,
Andreas