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Subject: Re: Faster pg_resore with autovacuum off?
From: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com>
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 07:58:17 -0600
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> On Jul 28, 2024, at 6:40=E2=80=AFAM, Laurenz Albe =
<laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> wrote:
>=20
> That's bad advice.  Very bad advice.
> That is, unless you are ready to delete the cluster and run a new =
"initdb" after an OS crash.

Exactly.

> You are wrong: it is not the database that is broken after a crash, =
but the entire cluster.

Good clarification. I personally have never had occasion to move a =
partial cluster, so my use of "database" in my question was sloppy, I =
meant "cluster". So yes, I'd delete the cluster and initdb if I ever =
actually had an OS crash during a pg_restore--which in 20 years of using =
PG has never happened. I suppose it might matter more if one were forced =
to run one's db on an unstable platform ;-)=