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

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Ilya Gladyshev <ilya.v.gladyshev@gmail.com>
Cc: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-09-03T18:39:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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In v12, I've moved the "queries" PQExpBuffer up to the UpgradeTask struct
so that we don't need to rebuild it for every database.  I think this patch
set is in reasonable state, and I still plan to commit it this month.

-- 
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