I have a table with over 6 million rows in it that I do a dump on every
night. It takes less than 2 minutes to create a file that is around 650 MB.
Are you maybe dumping this file in 'insert' mode?
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Mike Nolan
On 9/21/06, Charles Ambrose <jamjam360(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> Hi!
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> I have a fairly large database tables (say an average of 3Million to
> 4Million records). Using the pg_dump utility takes forever to dump the
> database tables. As an alternative, I have created a program that gets all
> the data from the table and then put it into a text file. I was also
> unsuccessfull in this alternative to dump the database.
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