Re: Slow PITR restore

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jeff Trout <threshar(at)threshar(dot)is-a-geek(dot)com>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Slow PITR restore
Date: 2007-12-12 17:56:04
Message-ID: 22612.1197482164@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Jeff Trout <threshar(at)threshar(dot)is-a-geek(dot)com> writes:
> I've seen this on my PITR restores (thankfully, they were for
> fetching some old data, not because we expoded). On a 2.4ghz opteron
> it took 5-50 seconds per wal segment, and there were a LOT of
> segments (replay took hours and hours). I asked a few folks and was
> told it is the nature of the beast. Hopefully something in 8.4 can
> be done.

Before we get all panicked about that, someone should try to measure the
restore speed on 8.3. It's possible that this patch already
alleviated the problem:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-05/msg00041.php

regards, tom lane

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