Re: Restore performance?

Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote:
>> 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?
>
>
> was the last restore successfull ?
> if so why do you want to repeat ?

"about the same time" == Estimated guess from restoring a few tables
I was running a testrun, without disabling updates to the production
database, the real run is scheduled for easter where there hopefully is
no users on the system. So I need to repeat, I'm just trying to get a
feelingabout how long time I need to allocate for the operation.

> 1. run new version of postgres in a different port and pipe pg_dump to psql
> this may save the CPU time of compression , there is no need for a temporary
> dump file.
>
> pg_dump | /path/to/psql813 -p 54XX newdb

I'll do that. It is a completely different machine anyway.

> 2. use new version of pg_dump to dump the old database as new version
> is supposed to be wiser.

Check.

> 3. make sure you are trapping the restore errors properly
> psql newdb 2>&1 | cat | tee err works for me.

Thats noted.

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Jesper Krogh, jesper(at)krogh(dot)cc