>> Yeah, Jeff's experiments indicated that the remaining bottleneck is lock >> management in the server. What I fixed so far on the pg_dump side >> should be enough to let partial dumps run at reasonable speed even if >> the whole database contains many tables. But if psql is taking >> AccessShareLock on lots of tables, there's still a problem. > > Ok, I modified the part of pg_dump where tremendous number of LOCK > TABLE are issued. I replace them with single LOCK TABLE with multiple > tables. With 100k tables LOCK statements took 13 minutes in total, now > it only takes 3 seconds. Comments? Shall I commit to master and all supported branches? -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance