Re: Pg_upgrade speed for many tables

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Magnus reported that a customer with a million tables was finding
> > pg_upgrade slow.
>
> You sure there's not an O(N^2) issue in there somewhere?

> > I don't see anything unsafe about having pg_upgrade use
> > synchronous_commit=off.
>
> No objection, but this seems unlikely to be better than linear speedup,
> with a not-terribly-large constant factor.
>
> BTW, does pg_upgrade run pg_restore in --single-transaction mode?
> That would probably make synchronous_commit moot, at least for that
> step.
>

It doesn't use pg_restore at all - it uses the dump from pg_dumpall, which
you can't reload with pg_restore.

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