Re: Slow pg_dump affecting pg_upgrade speed

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 02:24:54PM +0100, Léo FERLIN SUTTON wrote:
> We believe this is related to the size of our pg_catalog, we have
> thousands (if not hundred of thousands of views) on most of our
> databases. Here is an example on cluster A :
...
> We are completely aware that this is a *bad* idea, and our newer

I appreciate your candor. :-)

> developments are all moving far far away for this type of schema,
> however we are currently stuck with this for at least a few more
> months if not years.
>
> My question to this mailing list is : Are we missing something that
> could speed up the pg_dump ?

There isn't much we can do to speed it up anymore. We optimized the
schema restore in the past, at least with the ideas we had. A new idea
we discussed last month was to allow the schema dump/restore while the
old server is running. You can see the discussion here:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20171205140135(dot)GA25023%40momjian(dot)us#20171205140135(dot)GA25023(at)momjian(dot)us

That is only brainstorming at this point and it is not clear we will
even implement it.

The bottom line is that pg_upgrade is much more effective on large
databases with a smaller number of database objects than the reverse.

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