Re: Dumping/Restoring with constraints?

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Phoenix Kiula" <phoenix(dot)kiula(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Bill Moran" <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com>, "PG-General Mailing List" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Dumping/Restoring with constraints?
Date: 2008-08-27 17:41:56
Message-ID: dcc563d10808271041n5e5c4d0exedba194893a58de6@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Phoenix Kiula <phoenix(dot)kiula(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Thanks. But there seems to be a tangible slowdown of DB operations
> during the time that pg_dump is running. Perhaps some of my
> postgresql.conf variables are not geared to this. (I vaguely recall
> setting it up so that the wal_buffers or checkpoint_segments needed to
> be set upwards for maintenance tasks).
>
> My question: is it possible to interactively set up these variables so
> that pg_dumpall can work very fast? And behind the scenes, without
> slowing stuff down?

Nope, it's not a software problem, it's a hardware problem. You're
drive subsystem can only deliver data so fast. The fix is usually
better hardware. Big RAID controller and lots of drives.

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