Re: Pg_upgrade speed for many tables

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Magnus reported that a customer with a million tables was finding
> > pg_upgrade slow.
>
> You sure there's not an O(N^2) issue in there somewhere?


> > I don't see anything unsafe about having pg_upgrade use
> > synchronous_commit=off.
>
> No objection, but this seems unlikely to be better than linear speedup,
> with a not-terribly-large constant factor.
>
> BTW, does pg_upgrade run pg_restore in --single-transaction mode?
> That would probably make synchronous_commit moot, at least for that
> step.
>


It doesn't use pg_restore at all - it uses the dump from pg_dumpall, which
you can't reload with pg_restore.


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