Wyatt Tellis <wyatt.tellis@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Yes, the LOBs themselves are tiny, but there are a lot of them (~150 > million) which seem to be slowing down pg_dump. Note, we did not > design/build this system and agree that use of LOBs for this purpose was > not necessary. I don't know of anything much you can do at the user level. But there is a patchset under development to improve pg_dump's behavior with tons of blobs: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/842242.1706287466@xxxxxxxxxxxxx That's intended for v17, and I'm not sure how tough it might be to adapt to v15 pg_dump, but maybe you could make that happen. In any case, more eyeballs reviewing that patchset would be welcome. regards, tom lane