Re: improve performance of pg_dump with many sequences

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Euler Taveira <euler(at)eulerto(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: improve performance of pg_dump with many sequences
Date: 2026-01-07 23:27:31
Message-ID: aV7r43VN-kBR6T8v@nathan
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 06:13:48PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Before v18, pg_dump just ERRORs due to insufficient privileges on a
>> sequence. IMHO that makes sense. If you ask pg_dump to dump something you
>> don't have privileges on, I'd expect it to error instead of silently
>> skipping it.
>
> That would be a fine argument were it not that collectSequences()
> tries to vacuum up the data for every sequence in the DB, whether
> the user has asked to dump them all or not. In other places in
> pg_dump, we avoid such problems by restricting which tables we
> ask for data about ... but not here.

I meant that we could teach pg_dump to error in dumpSequenceData() if it
sees nulls for the sequence in question.

--
nathan

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