Re: 15 pg_upgrade with -j

Jeff Ross <jross@openvistas.net>

From: Jeff Ross <jross@openvistas.net>
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-05-23T14:38:53Z
Lists: pgsql-general

On 5/22/23 5:42 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jeff Ross<jross@openvistas.net>  writes:
>> On 5/22/23 5:24 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>>> So is the 1400G mostly in one database in the cluster?
>> Yes, one big database with about 80 schemas and several other smaller
>> databases so -j should help, right?
> AFAICT from a quick look at the code, you won't get any meaningful
> parallelism unless you have several large DBs and/or several large
> tablespaces.  It looks like the assumption was that issuing link()
> requests in parallel wouldn't help much but just swamp your disk
> if they're all on the same filesystem.  Maybe that could use
> rethinking, not sure.
>
> 			regards, tom lane
>
>
Thanks Tom.  These are all smokingly fast SSDs so it would be 
interesting to see how well they'd hold up under that load.

Jeff