inefficiency of pg_restore

From: Jie Liang <jie(at)stbernard(dot)com>
To: Jie Liang <jie(at)stbernard(dot)com>, 'Bruce Momjian ' <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, 'Tom Lane ' <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
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Subject: inefficiency of pg_restore
Date: 2002-08-12 22:16:51
Message-ID: 7C760DAA511DC74B99E7D22189F786F101BF2163@mail01.stbernard.com
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By default, pg_dump uses COPY to restore its data when we use
the plain text form, however, it's not the case when we use
the customer format, e.g.
pg_dump -Fc mydb > mydb.out

the documenation of pg_restore address

su-2.05$ time psql urldb<jurloldmail.out
You are now connected as new user jliang.
CREATE

real 0m0.662s
user 0m0.045s
sys 0m0.015s
su-2.05$ time pg_restore -cvt jurloldmail -d urldb urldb.out.020810
pg_restore: connecting to database for restore
pg_restore: dropping TABLE jurloldmail
pg_restore: connecting to database urldb as user jliang
pg_restore: creating TABLE jurloldmail
pg_restore: restoring data for table jurloldmail

real 0m6.880s
user 0m0.296s
sys 0m0.028s

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