Re: Review: Revise parallel pg_restore's scheduling heuristic

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Review: Revise parallel pg_restore's scheduling heuristic
Date: 2009-07-29 13:53:34
Message-ID: 16987.1248875614@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I don't have time to look right now, but ISTM the original discussion
>> that led to making that patch had ideas about scenarios where it would
>> be faster.

> This is what I've been able to find on a quick look:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-05/msg00678.php

> Sounds like Kevin may want to try renaming some of his indices to
> produce intermingling...

Also, the followup to that message points out that the 8.4.0 code has a
potential O(N^2) dependency on the total number of TOC items in the
dump. So it might be interesting to check the behavior with very large
numbers of tables/indexes.

regards, tom lane

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