Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:38:03 +0200 > hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > we have rather uncommon case - DB with ~ 50GB of data, but this is > > spread across ~ 80000 tables. > > > > Running pg_dump -Fd -jxx dumps in parallel, but only data, and MOST of > > the time is spent on queries that run sequentially, and as far as I can > > tell, get schema of tables, and sequence values. > > > > This happens on Pg 9.5. Are there any plans to make getting schema > > faster for such cases? Either by parallelization, or at least by getting > > schema for all tables "at once", and having pg_dump "sort it out", > > instead of getting schema for each table separately? Depesz: I suggest you start coding ASAP. > Another issue I found in current implementation is how pg_restore deal with PK. > As it takes an exclusif lock on the table, it is executed alone before indexes > creation. > > Splitting the PK in unique index creation then the constraint creation might > save a lot of time as other index can be built during the PK creation. Yeah. I recall there being some stupid limitation in ALTER TABLE .. ADD CONSTRAINT USING INDEX to create a primary key from a previously existing unique index, which would be very good to fix (I don't recall what it was, but it was something infuriatingly silly). I suggest you start coding that ASAP. (Two new contributors to pg_dump! Yay!) -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
