Re: optimizing pg_upgrade's once-in-each-database steps

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2024-07-08T15:22:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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As I mentioned elsewhere [0], here's a first attempt at parallelizing the
data type checks.  I was worried that I might have to refactor Daniel's
work in commit 347758b quite significantly, but I was able to avoid that by
using a set of generic callbacks and providing each task step an index to
the data_types_usage_checks array.

[0] https://postgr.es/m/Zov5kHbEyDMuHJI_%40nathan

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nathan

Commits

  1. Introduce framework for parallelizing various pg_upgrade tasks.

  2. pg_upgrade: Parallelize WITH OIDS check.

  3. pg_upgrade: Parallelize contrib/isn check.

  4. pg_upgrade: Parallelize data type checks.

  5. pg_upgrade: Parallelize encoding conversion check.

  6. pg_upgrade: Parallelize incompatible polymorphics check.

  7. pg_upgrade: Parallelize postfix operator check.

  8. pg_upgrade: Parallelize retrieving extension updates.

  9. pg_upgrade: Parallelize retrieving loadable libraries.

  10. pg_upgrade: Parallelize retrieving relation information.

  11. pg_upgrade: Parallelize subscription check.

  12. pg_upgrade: Move live_check variable to user_opts.

  13. pg_upgrade: run all data type checks per connection