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To: Rod Taylor <rod.taylor@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Backup/Restore too slow 
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Rod Taylor <rod.taylor@gmail.com> writes:
> Rebuilding the indexes or integrity confirmations are probably taking
> most of the time.

> What is your work_mem setting?

maintenance_work_mem is the thing to look at, actually.  I concur that
bumping it up might help.

			regards, tom lane