Thanks,
in fact I also expected a couple of hours and I was surprised by this result.
I will have a look to the hardware (unfortunately not before next week now).

Thanks again.

Rasper, Franz wrote:
Hi,

Normally it should be done in between 1 and 4 hours.
Fastest version is maybe

pg_dump ...  | psql ...

27 hours is in my opinion a little bit to much.
What is your hardware ?

Greetings,

-Franz

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Betreff: [Spam] [GENERAL] Improve dump and restore time

Hello,
I am studying how to migrate our Production Database which is running under PG 
8.2 and we would like to move to PG 8.3 I have read that the only safe solution 
is to perform a dump and restore.
Our DB is around 6GB large.
I wanted to have an expectation of the migration duration and performed it on a 
less powerful machine than the one we have in Production.
Unfortunately it took very very long time (around 27 hours!).
Are there best practices to reduce the migration time ?
Some kind of questions I try to solve:
- Is it better to use a compressed dump or not ?
- Should I use a kind of trick like reading dump file from network while 
restoring on the machine to reduce concurrent I/O and so on

Any advice is welcome.

Thanks!

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