Re: pg_dump and thousands of schemas

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_dump and thousands of schemas
Date: 2012-05-31 00:20:43
Message-ID: 20120531.092043.1953698679173443322.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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>> Yeah, Jeff's experiments indicated that the remaining bottleneck is lock
>> management in the server. What I fixed so far on the pg_dump side
>> should be enough to let partial dumps run at reasonable speed even if
>> the whole database contains many tables. But if psql is taking
>> AccessShareLock on lots of tables, there's still a problem.
>
> Ok, I modified the part of pg_dump where tremendous number of LOCK
> TABLE are issued. I replace them with single LOCK TABLE with multiple
> tables. With 100k tables LOCK statements took 13 minutes in total, now
> it only takes 3 seconds. Comments?

Shall I commit to master and all supported branches?
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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