Re: 7 hrs for a pg_restore?

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Douglas J Hunley" <doug(at)hunley(dot)homeip(dot)net>
Cc: "Erik Jones" <erik(at)myemma(dot)com>, "Jeff" <threshar(at)threshar(dot)is-a-geek(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Richard Huxton" <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 7 hrs for a pg_restore?
Date: 2008-02-20 14:14:13
Message-ID: 874pc3ww96.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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"Douglas J Hunley" <doug(at)hunley(dot)homeip(dot)net> writes:

> On Tuesday 19 February 2008 16:32:02 Erik Jones wrote:
>> pg_restore is a postgres client app that uses libpq to connect and,  
>> thus, will pick up anything in your $PGOPTIONS env variable.  So,
>>
>> PGOPTONS="-c maintenance_work_mem=512MB" && pg_restore ....
>
> now that's just plain cool
>
> /me updates our wiki

I would suggest leaving out the && which only obfuscate what's going on here.

PGOPTIONS=... pg_restore ...

would work just as well and be clearer about what's going on.

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Gregory Stark
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