Re: pg_dump additional options for performance

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: bruce(at)momjian(dot)us
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_dump additional options for performance
Date: 2008-03-04 14:39:19
Message-ID: 200803041439.m24EdJC08203@momjian.us
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bruce wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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> > On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:33:08 -0500 (EST)
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > > Added to TODO based on this discussion:
> > >
> > > o Allow pg_dump to utilize multiple CPUs and I/O channels by
> > > dumping multiple objects simultaneously
> > >
> > > The difficulty with this is getting multiple dump processes
> > > to produce a single dump output file.
> > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg00205.php
> >
> > Isn't part of this problem also a consistent snapshot?
>
> Yes, that might also be an issue though I thought we had some ideas
> about snapshot sharing.

OK, I have added the possible requirement of shared snapshots to that
pg_dump TODO item. Thanks.

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