That brings up a good point. It would be extremely helpful to add two
parameters to pg_dump. One, to add how many rows to insert before a
commit, and two, to live through X number of errors before dying (and
putting the "bad" rows in a file).
At 10:15 AM 3/19/2004, Mark M. Huber wrote:
>What it was that I guess the pg_dump makes one large transaction and our
>shell script wizard wrote a perl program to add a commit transaction
>every 500 rows or what every you set. Also I should have said that we were
>doing the recovery with the insert statements created from pg_dump. So...
>my 500000 row table recovery took < 10 Min.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Mark H
>
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