Please bottom-post, otherwise the thread becomes hard to read. On Thu, 2018-10-11 at 08:44 +0530, Raghavendra Rao J S V wrote: > We are using postgresql 9.2. It doesn't contain the option. > > Please guide me any other approaches to improve the performance of pg_dump. > > On Thu 11 Oct, 2018, 8:05 AM Pavan Teja, <pavan.postgresdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You can use -j jobs option to speed up the process. > > > > Hope it works. > > > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 8:02 AM Raghavendra Rao J S V <raghavendrajsv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > pg_dump is taking more time. Please let me know which configuration setting we > > > need to modify to speedup the pg_dump backup.We are using 9.2 version on Centos Box. There you have your first configuration change to speed up pg_dump: upgrade from 9.2 to a release that is still supported. And please don't tell me that you cannot / may not. If your data are important for you, and you really want that speed-up, you can. Anyway, to make pg_dump faster with the -j option, you need to use the "directory format" (-F d). Other options to speed up pg_dump are limited: you can get faster storage so that sequential scans are faster or more memory so that more of the data resides in the filesystem cache. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com