Re: pg_upgrade failing for 200+ million Large Objects

Jan Wieck <jan@wi3ck.info>

From: Jan Wieck <jan@wi3ck.info>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, 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: 2021-03-23T18:54:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 3/23/21 2:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jan Wieck <jan@wi3ck.info> writes:
>> So the question remains, how do we name this?
> 
>>      --pg-dump-options "<string>"
>>      --pg-restore-options "<string>"
> 
> If you're passing multiple options, that is
> 
> 	--pg-dump-options "--foo=x --bar=y"
> 
> it seems just horribly fragile.  Lose the double quotes and suddenly
> --bar is a separate option to pg_upgrade itself, not part of the argument
> for the previous option.  That's pretty easy to do when passing things
> through shell scripts, too.  So it'd likely be safer to write
> 
> 	--pg-dump-option=--foo=x --pg-dump-option=--bar=y
> 
> which requires pg_upgrade to allow aggregating multiple options,
> but you'd probably want it to act that way anyway.

... which would be all really easy if pg_upgrade wouldn't be assembling 
a shell script string to pass into parallel_exec_prog() by itself.

But I will see what I can do ...


Regards, 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