Re: Adding foreign key constraints without integrity

On Jun 18, 2006, at 11:08 PM, Wes wrote:
> System memory is 2GB (would like more, but...).  Data is on one array
> (hardware RAID 5 of eight 73 GB 10k SCSI drives), indexes on another
> (hardware RAID 5 of five 15K 146 GB SCSI drives on a separate
> channel), and
> pg_xlog on a third RAID 1 on a third channel).  There are two 2.4
> GHz Xeon
> processors).

FWIW, RAID5 isn't normally a good recipe for good database performance.

This won't help with constraint checking, but you should consider
turning fsync off during your restore.

Also, why are you frequently dumping and restoring?
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