On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Nguyen, Dan wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I just convert a MSQL database to PSQL and wondering if someone can help me
> to duplicate or restore a database in a short period. Here is what I have
> done.
>
> Backup <users> database:
> pg_dump -C -D -n -f backupDB.psql users
>
> Duplicate <users> database:
> 1. createdb test
> 2. edit the backupDB.psql file and remove the first block regarding users
> DATABASE
> 3. psql -a -e -f backupDB.psql test
>
>
> Doing this way will take about a hour to duplicate a database with about
> 50,000 records. Is there any other ways that you can help me to speed up
> the process?
Not using -D to pg_dump will probably help since that'll use copy rather
than insert.