"Nikita The Spider The Spider" <nikitathespider@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm seeing a problem where pg_dump takes at least 5 minutes to execute > no matter what I ask it to dump -- even a non-existent or empty table. > One possible red flag is that pg_type contains 56508 rows. This > doesn't seem excessive to me, but perhaps it should. That does seem like a lot --- what sort of types are they? Scalar, composite, what? It's fairly likely that no one has tried to optimize pg_dump for such a case. It'd be helpful if you could recompile pg_dump with profiling enabled (-pg compiler switch) and get a gprof profile to show where the time is going. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq