Re: db restore takes to long

From: Viktor Bojović <viktor(dot)bojovic(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: adrien ducos <aducos(at)hbs-research(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: db restore takes to long
Date: 2011-05-09 11:44:00
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Thanx Adrien,
i have tried to skip indexes but constraints rely on them
"there is no unique constraint matching given keys for referenced table"
, so i will try to use pg_restore as you have mentioned below.

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:19 PM, adrien ducos <aducos(at)hbs-research(dot)com>wrote:

> It seams there is no option like that in pg_dump or pg_restore. But You can
> manualy do it in the dump or with a sed command finding the lines begining
> by CREATE INDEX and removing them.
>
> We also have a big database and since postgres 8.4 pg_restore is much
> faster with the option --jobs=x
>
> where x is the number of cores you have in your microprocessor. It then
> divides the restore script into different jobs and goes faster using
> multithreading.
> example:
> pg_restore --username postgres --jobs=4 --dbname=your_db_name
> your_dump_file
>
> Here is if you have a quad core.
>
> Adrien
>
>
> Viktor Bojović a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>>
>> im trying to restore 250GB database, but indexing takes too long, so
>> restore takes more then 12h.
>> Is it possible to disable indexing while restoring database?
>>
>> Thanx in advance
>>
>>
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