On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Yuji Shinozaki wrote: > > I have two questions about restoring and moving databases (in pg 7.3), to > which I have not been able to find a suitable answers in the documentation > (and searching the list archives has been painfully slow and fruitless). > > 1) What is the fastest way to restore a database *with indexes*? > > We have situation where I need to make a duplicate of a production > database for development work, so that we can develop code without > interfering with the production database. I use pg_dump for this, but I > have not been able to get pg_restore to work (usually because of > constraint problems). So I do the restores from a text dump piped into > psql (with all the constraints applied last). Then the problem is that > reindexing takes a very long time. One particular index is taking on the > order of 12 hours to finish.
I've been dumping and restoring a very very big database, with indexes, with no such problems. The table details that get dumped setup the indexes, and AIUI the indexes are kept up-to-date as items are added. -- Sam Barnett-Cormack Software Developer | Student of Physics & Maths UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk) | Lancaster University ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
