Re: Recovery will take 10 hours

On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 22:46 -0600, Brendan Duddridge wrote:

> So how do you overlap the restore process with the retrieving of files?

The restore command can be *anything*. You just write a script...

> Our restore command is:
>
> restore_command = 'gunzip </wal_archive/%f.gz>%p'
>
> If I change it to:
>
> restore_command = 'gunzip </wal_archive/%f.gz>%p &'
>
> to execute the restore command in the background, will that do the
> trick?

No, but you can execute a shell script that does use & internally.

> But I don't think the real problem was the retrieval of the files. It
> only
> took maybe 1/2 a second to retrieve the file, but often took anywhere
> from
> 5 to 30 seconds to process the file. More so on the longer end of the
> scale.

Sorry, thought you meant the decompression time.

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