Re: synchronous commit in dump

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Jaime Casanova
<jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> 2010/2/23 Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> it's safe to set synchrounous_commit to off in a pg_dump generated
>>> script? if yes, would this help to the performance of restore a
>>> database?
>>
>> It might help if you're dumping as individual inserts and not COPY,
>> but if you're doing that you're not asking for performance in the
>> first place.
>
> That isn't necesarily true. Maybe you don't have shell access to the
> database server
> but just trough pgadmin or something like that...
>
> in that env the copy of the dumps won't work so you need to make the backup with
> inserts (by need) and still want some performance

I don't see why that would preclude using COPY.  But anyway in that
case you could still run the restore with -1.

...Robert