Re: Slow BLOBs restoring

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Vlad Arkhipov <arhipov(at)dc(dot)baikal(dot)ru>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Slow BLOBs restoring
Date: 2010-12-08 14:46:21
Message-ID: 14439.1291819581@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Vlad Arkhipov <arhipov(at)dc(dot)baikal(dot)ru> writes:
> I discovered this issue a bit more. -j option is slowing down BLOBs
> restoring. It's about 1000x times slower if you specify this option.

Are you by any chance restoring from an 8.3 or older pg_dump file made
on Windows? If so, it's a known issue.

> Does anybody plan to fix it?

Not without a complete reproducible example ... and not at all if it's
the known problem. The fix for that is to update pg_dump to 8.4 or
later.

regards, tom lane

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