Re: Experience and feedback on pg_restore --data-only

On 3/24/25 09:15, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> Hi Ron,
> 
> I read your reply in the mailing list archives as I'm not subscribed to
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> 
>> Why are you regularly having emergencies requiring the restoration of
>> multi-TB tables to databases with lots of cruft?
>>
>> Fixing that would go a long way towards eliminating your problems with
>> pg_restore.
> 
> I don't have emergencies yet. I'm testing the process of restoring the
> database dump, and it takes more than 24 hours currently. A successful
> test is vital to approve the process.

It is doubtful that pg_dump/pg_restore will meet the requirements. You 
are probably looking at some process that does incremental updates and 
then restores from that. Something like pgbackrest:

https://pgbackrest.org/

comes to mind.

> 
> But the primary usage of pg_restore that I have is not to save me from
> emergencies but to populate the dev database with recent data.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Dimitris
> 

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