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VincentEvans on April 19, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: How we upgraded our 4TB Postgres database

Why is SQL Server able to backup and restore databases 100s of gigabytes in size in single-digit minutes, while Postgres is at least 10x slower?

aeorgnoieang on April 21, 2022 [–]

Is that even true? I don't think I've seen or read a direct apples-to-apples comparison of the two.

There could be all kinds of reasons why that is tho (if it is in fact the case).

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