Re: pg_dump dump catalog ACLs

From: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Jose Luis Tallon <jltallon(at)adv-solutions(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_dump dump catalog ACLs
Date: 2016-05-04 23:47:05
Message-ID: 20160504234705.GA2428510@tornado.leadboat.com
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On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 08:14:55AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Noah Misch (noah(at)leadboat(dot)com) wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:39:09AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > > * Noah Misch (noah(at)leadboat(dot)com) wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:31:41PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > > > > After looking through the code a bit, I realized that there are a lot of
> > > > > object types which don't have ACLs at all but which exist in pg_catalog
> > > > > and were being analyzed because the bitmask for pg_catalog included ACLs
> > > > > and therefore was non-zero.
> > > > >
> > > > > Clearing that bit for object types which don't have ACLs improved the
> > > > > performance for empty databases quite a bit (from about 3s to a bit
> > > > > under 1s on my laptop). That's a 42-line patch, with comment lines
> > > > > being half of that, which I'll push once I've looked into the other
> > > > > concerns which were brought up on this thread.
> > > >
> > > > That's good news.
> > >
> > > Attached patch-set includes this change in patch #2.
> >
> > Timings for the 100-database pg_dumpall:
> >
> > HEAD: 131s
> > HEAD+patch: 33s
> > 9.5: 8.6s
> >
> > Nice improvement for such a simple patch.
>
> Patch #2 in the attached patchset includes that improvement and a
> further one which returns the performance to very close to 9.5.

What timings did you measure? (How close?)

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