Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> In v8.4, I noticed that the tables seemed to be dumped in alphabetical
> order. Not so much, though, in a multithreaded 9.6 dump of an 8.4 database;
> there's no pattern that I can discern.
> In what order does the 9.6 pg_dump dump tables?
I don't believe the ordering rules have changed materially since 8.4;
it's intended to be by object kind, and within that by name, except
where dependencies force doing something else.
But what are you thinking constitutes the "dump order" in a parallel dump?
regards, tom lane