Re: [pgadmin-support] Why do backups take so long?

2015-03-06 Thread Jan-Peter Seifert
Am 06.03.2015 um 19:33 schrieb Raymond O'Donnell: pgAdmin just uses pg_dump [1] to do the actual backup, so it would be interesting to run pg_dump directly at the command line to see if the same behaviour manifests itself. There's nothing interesting about that, because this behaviour is reall

Re: [pgadmin-support] Why do backups take so long?

2015-03-06 Thread Rob Richardson
It completed successfully in about two seconds. RobR -Original Message- From: Raymond O'Donnell [mailto:r...@iol.ie] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 1:33 PM To: Rob Richardson; pgadmin-support@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] Why do backups take so long? On 06/03/2015 18:26, R

Re: [pgadmin-support] Why do backups take so long?

2015-03-06 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 06/03/2015 18:26, Rob Richardson wrote: > I have PostgreSQL 9.3 and the associated version of PGAdmin loaded on my > Windows 7 Pro box. I am trying to take a backup of a tiny database on > my local machine. When I request the backup, PGAdmin flashes for three > minutes before finally deciding

[pgadmin-support] Why do backups take so long?

2015-03-06 Thread Rob Richardson
I have PostgreSQL 9.3 and the associated version of PGAdmin loaded on my Windows 7 Pro box. I am trying to take a backup of a tiny database on my local machine. When I request the backup, PGAdmin flashes for three minutes before finally deciding to make the backup. Why does it do that, and is