Re: pg_upgrade failing for 200+ million Large Objects

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
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Subject: Re: pg_upgrade failing for 200+ million Large Objects
Date: 2024-04-01 19:37:18
Message-ID: 20240401193718.GB2302032@nathanxps13
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On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 03:28:26PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> The one design point that worries me a little is the non-configurability of
>> --transaction-size in pg_upgrade. I think it's fine to default it to 1,000
>> or something, but given how often I've had to fiddle with
>> max_locks_per_transaction, I'm wondering if we might regret hard-coding it.
>
> Well, we could add a command-line switch to pg_upgrade, but I'm
> unconvinced that it'd be worth the trouble. I think a very large
> fraction of users invoke pg_upgrade by means of packager-supplied
> scripts that are unlikely to provide a way to pass through such
> a switch. I'm inclined to say let's leave it as-is until we get
> some actual field requests for a switch.

Okay. I'll let you know if I see anything. IIRC usually the pg_dump side
of pg_upgrade is more prone to lock exhaustion, so you may very well be
right that this is unnecessary.

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Nathan Bossart
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com

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