Re: pg_dump dependency / physical hot backup

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
Cc: Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_dump dependency / physical hot backup
Date: 2003-11-24 01:26:33
Message-ID: 3FC15E49.3080801@familyhealth.com.au
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> Verifying zero rows in the freshly created table should be quite fast...

It's hundreds of times faster to add an index to a full table than add
rows to a table with an index.

Chris

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