Re: pg_dump and thousands of schemas

Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>

From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-05-30T09:06:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance

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  1. Teach AbortOutOfAnyTransaction to clean up partially-started transactions.

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> 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?
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Tatsuo Ishii
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