Re: suggestion

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Jan Cruz" <malebug@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-02-24T04:45:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"Jan Cruz" <malebug@gmail.com> writes:
> On 2/24/06, Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com> wrote:
>> If this doesn't do what you want, can you give a bit more
>> explanation? Also, what are you trying to do with this dump file?

> I also want an option that would exclude  "CREATE INDEX "  whenever
> a schema is being dump

> The reason for this is that whenever I tried to migrate database
> whenever I restore a schema with indexes and then
> restore the data separately it took more or less 24 hours instead of
> the usual 1 hour more or less.

Restoring schema and data separately is guaranteed to be less efficient
than restoring a combined dump.  An option to omit indexes from the
schema dump will not fix this.  Indeed it will arguably make things
worse --- in the first place there are severe performance issues
associated with unindexed foreign-key checks, and in the second place
there is the foot-gun problem that you might forget to re-add the
indexes at all.

I think the right question to ask here is "why are you so intent on
using separate schema/data restores?"  That's not the recommended way
to go about things, and it never will be.

			regards, tom lane