Re: pg_upgrade failing for 200+ million Large Objects

Jan Wieck <jan@wi3ck.info>

From: Jan Wieck <jan@wi3ck.info>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Robins Tharakan <tharakan@gmail.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-03-21T16:56:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 3/21/21 7:47 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> One possible (probable?) source is the JDBC driver, which currently
> treats all Blobs (and Clobs, for that matter) as LOs. I'm working on
> improving that some: <https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/pull/2093>

You mean the user is using OID columns pointing to large objects and the 
JDBC driver is mapping those for streaming operations?

Yeah, that would explain a lot.


Thanks, Jan

-- 
Jan Wieck
Principle Database Engineer
Amazon Web Services



Commits

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  1. Count individual SQL commands in pg_restore's --transaction-size mode.

  2. Reduce number of commands dumpTableSchema emits for binary upgrade.

  3. Invent --transaction-size option for pg_restore.

  4. Rearrange pg_dump's handling of large objects for better efficiency.

  5. Add temporal PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraints

  6. Fix typo and case in messages