Re: pg_dump | pg_sql: insert commands and foreign key constraints

From: Tomasz Ostrowski <tometzky(at)batory(dot)org(dot)pl>
To: William Garrison <postgres(at)mobydisk(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres General List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_dump | pg_sql: insert commands and foreign key constraints
Date: 2008-09-25 07:18:26
Message-ID: 48DB3B42.20902@batory.org.pl
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On 2008-09-24 18:01, William Garrison wrote:

> Then I commented-out the constraints from the schema. Then I loaded
> the data.

Don't forget to restore these constraints back after loading data.

> I made a schema only dump, then a data only dump with --inserts. (...)
> Unfortunately, the INSERT statements take 24 hours instead of 4 hours to
> restore. When you say the "default" options - what format does that
> write? Should I have used -Fp to make a plain text backup but not
> --inserts? Then it would be doing a COPY instead of an INSERT and maybe
> that would be faster.

Indeed.

Regards
Tometzky
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