Re: PostgreSQL Dump rate is too slow

On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 08:38:37AM -0700, David G Johnston wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 12:12 AM, Adalkonda Harshad [via PostgreSQL] <
> ml-node+s1045698n5833283h97(at)n5(dot)nabble(dot)com> wrote:
>
> >
> > As the database size is too large and tweaking few database parameters
> > will result towards performance improvement on pg_dump to some extent and
> > pg_dump -j option would have helped if the DB version is PostgreSQL 9.3 but
> > unfortunately your DB version is PostgreSQL 9.2
> >
> >
> ​pg_dump 9.3+ can be used against the 9.2 server without problems. Read
> the documentation for the --jobs option for details.
>
> David J.
> ​
>
+1

This is a nice option for allowing you to leverage more than a single CPU core
for the dump, provided you have the CPU and I/O cycles to support it. As others
have suggested, offloading to a replica can help with that.

Regards,
Ken