From: Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah.rajesh@gmail.com>
To: Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Restore performance?
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:12:02 +0530
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sorry for the post , i didn' saw the other replies only after posting.
On 4/10/06, Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah.rajesh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 4/10/06, Jesper Krogh <jesper@krogh.cc> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm currently upgrading a Posgresql 7.3.2 database to a
> > 8.1.<something-good>
> >
> > I'd run pg_dump | gzip > sqldump.gz on the old system. That took about
> > 30 hours and gave me an 90GB zipped file. Running
> > cat sqldump.gz | gunzip | psql
> > into the 8.1 database seems to take about the same time. Are there
> > any tricks I can use to speed this dump+restore process up?
>
>
> was the last restore successfull ?
> if so why do you want to repeat ?
>
> some tips
>
> 1. run new version of postgres in a different port and pipe pg_dump to
> psql
> this may save the CPU time of compression , there is no need for a
> temporary
> dump file.
>
> pg_dump | /path/to/psql813 -p 54XX newdb
>
> 2. use new version of pg_dump to dump the old database as new version
> is supposed to be wiser.
>
> 3. make sure you are trapping the restore errors properly
> psql newdb 2>&1 | cat | tee err works for me.
>
>
>
>
> The database contains quite alot of BLOB, thus the size.
> >
> > Jesper
> > --
> > ./Jesper Krogh, jesper@krogh.cc, Jabber ID: jesper@jabbernet.dk
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
> >
>
>
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