Re: Slow PITR restore

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Slow PITR restore
Date: 2007-12-12 15:36:37
Message-ID: 47600005.8040506@commandprompt.com
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 22:21 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>>> ... Now I understand that restoring log files can be slow but this is a big
>>> machine.
>> Yeah, restoring is known to be less than speedy, because essentially
>> zero optimization work has been done on it.
>
> If there was a patch to improve this, would it be applied to 8.3?
>

Sheesh Simon you are really pushing this release :). I would love to see
a patch to resolve this, especially since it appears to be a fairly
glaring oversight. We can't really expect people to use PITR if they new
it would take hours to recover even on the size of machine I was working on.

On the other hand... we are about to go to RC1 :)

Joshua D. Drake

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