Re: Largeobject Access Controls (r2460)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: "Greg Smith" <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "KaiGai Kohei" <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "KaiGai Kohei" <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, "Takahiro Itagaki" <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Jaime Casanova" <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>
Subject: Re: Largeobject Access Controls (r2460)
Date: 2010-01-25 19:46:25
Message-ID: 901.1264448785@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> wrote:
>> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Did you happen to notice anything about pg_dump's memory
>>> consumption?

> I took a closer look, and there's some bad news, I think. The above
> numbers were from the ends of the range. I've gone back over and
> found that while it dropped about 2.1 GB almost immediately, cache
> usage slowly dropped throughout the dump, and bottomed at about 6.9
> GB below baseline.

OK, that's still not very scary --- it just means my off-the-cuff
estimate of 1:1 space usage was bad. 3:1 isn't that surprising either
given padding and other issues. The representation of ArchiveEntries
could probably be made a bit more compact ...

regards, tom lane

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