Re: Why are pg_restore taking that long ?

From: Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Poul Møller Hansen <freebsd(at)pbnet(dot)dk>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why are pg_restore taking that long ?
Date: 2012-05-20 17:10:52
Message-ID: CAK3UJRHY=TsWUDsYpSZ=DhxwY3EX8GM8d6b0WidqNyVmAyugDA@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Poul Møller Hansen <freebsd(at)pbnet(dot)dk> wrote:

>> Anyway, if you are seeing no activity at the end of the restore for quite
>> a while you may want to see if large objects are the reason.
>>
>
> The dump are from a version 9.0.7 and it's being restored in a version
> 9.1.3. There are no large objects.
>
> I'm now doing another restore with the -v switch, and hopefully it will show
> what it is doing at the end.
> There are Bucardo triggers in the database. Perhaps it can be the reason,
> and it should be restored with the "--disable-triggers" switch ?

Possibly. You should be able to tell what's taking so much time by
keeping an eye on your server during the restore. You could set
log_statement = 'all' (or just 'ddl' if there is significant other
activity in other databases) during the restore, and keep an eye on
pg_stat_activity if you need to.

Josh

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