Re: proper tuning for restoring from pg_dump in 8.3.7

From: David Kerr <dmk(at)mr-paradox(dot)net>
To: "Burgholzer, Robert (DEQ)" <Robert(dot)Burgholzer(at)deq(dot)virginia(dot)gov>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: proper tuning for restoring from pg_dump in 8.3.7
Date: 2010-07-14 21:35:33
Message-ID: 20100714213533.GA43630@mr-paradox.net
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:30:17PM -0400, Burgholzer, Robert (DEQ) wrote:
- >. The options I suggested be turned off just for the load process
- > ...
- > not safe if the other databases are in the same PostgreSQL Cluster
-
- They are, so I won't --- thanks for the heads up on that too.
-
- Just for posterity, here is the systems specs (from my hardware guy):
- DEQ1 is on centos 5.3
- W/ 1.5Tb striped system volumes using a pair of standard 7600 rpm sata
- drives. These are on system 3 gbit/s ports.

So that makes total sense. you're flooding your disks/controller doing
the massive amount of writing that's involved with the restore.

Dave

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