On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> For dumping entire databases, It looks like the biggest problem is >> going to be LockReassignCurrentOwner in the server. And that doesn't >> seem to be easy to fix, as any change to it to improve pg_dump will >> risk degrading normal use cases. > > I didn't try profiling the server side, but pg_dump doesn't use > subtransactions so it's not clear to me why LockReassignCurrentOwner > would get called at all ... I thought that every select statement in a repeatable read transaction ran in a separate "portal", and that a portal is a flavor of subtransaction. Anyway, it does show up at the top of a profile of the server, so it is getting called somehow. Cheers, Jeff -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance