Re: Patch: dumping tables data in multiple chunks in pg_dump

On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM Hannu Krosing <hannuk(at)google(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Attached is a patch that adds the ability to dump table data in multiple chunks.
>
> Looking for feedback at this point:
> 1) what have I missed
> 2) should I implement something to avoid single-page chunks
>
> The flag --huge-table-chunk-pages which tells the directory format
> dump to dump tables where the main fork has more pages than this in
> multiple chunks of given number of pages,
>
> The main use case is speeding up parallel dumps in case of one or a
> small number of HUGE tables so parts of these can be dumped in
> parallel.
>

+1 for the idea, I haven't done the detailed review but I was just
going through the patch, I noticed that we use pg_class->relpages to
identify whether to chunk the table or not, which should be fine but
don't you think if we use direct size calculation function like
pg_relation_size() we might get better idea and not dependent upon
whether the stats are updated or not? This will make chunking
behavior more deterministic.

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Regards,
Dilip Kumar
Google