Re: Slow restoration question

Tom Lane wrote:

>Eric Lam <elam(at)lisasoft(dot)com> writes:
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>>what is the quickest way of dumping a DB and restoring it? I have done a
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>> "pg_dump -D database | split --line-bytes 1546m part"
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>Don't use "-D" if you want fast restore ...
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> regards, tom lane
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thanks, I read that from the doco, the reason why I am using the -D
option is because I was informed by previous people in the company that
they never got a 100% strike rate in database restoration without using
the -D or -d options. If I have enough space on the QA/staging machine
I'll give the no options dump restoration a try.

Anyone have any estimates the time differences between the -D, -d and
[using no option].

regards
Eric Lam