Wes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's more than 250 million rows. If I remember right, it's ballpark 25% > data reload, 75% index/foreign constraint rebuild. Pg_dumpall is something > like 3 hours or so.
FWIW, increasing sort_mem for the reload process would probably help with the index and FK rebuilds. (8.0 rejiggers things so that the memory constraints for these operations are driven off a separate variable, but in 7.* you need to muck about with sort_mem. The appropriate value for one-off operations is a lot higher than what you would want multiple competing backends to be using.) regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html