Re: Can we get rid of repeated queries from pg_dump?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: depesz(at)depesz(dot)com
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Can we get rid of repeated queries from pg_dump?
Date: 2021-08-28 22:26:21
Message-ID: 1082810.1630189581@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Here is a second patch, quite independent of the first one, that
gets rid of some other repetitive queries. On the regression database,
the number of queries needed to do "pg_dump -s regression" drops from
3260 to 2589, and on my machine it takes 1.8 sec instead of 2.1 sec.

What's attacked here is a fairly silly decision in getPolicies()
to query pg_policy once per table, when we could do so just once.
It might have been okay if we skipped the per-table query for
tables that lack policies, but it's not clear to me that we can
know that without looking into pg_policy. In any case I doubt
this is ever going to be less efficient than the original coding.

regards, tom lane

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