Re: Performance issues during pg_restore -j with big partitioned table

On Wed, 2 Apr 2025, Adrian Klaver wrote:

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> On 4/2/25 10:32 AM, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
>> Hello list.
>>
>> My database includes one table with 1000 partitions, all of them rather
>> sizeable. I run:
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>>   pg_restore -j12 --no-tablespaces --disable-triggers --exit-on-error
>> --no-owner --no-privileges -n public -d newdb custom_format_dump.pgdump
>>
>> Right now after 24h of restore, I notice weird behaviour, so I have
>> several questions about it:
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>> + 11 postgres backend processes are sleeping as "TRUNCATE TABLE waiting".
>>   I see that they are waiting to issue a TRUNCATE for one of the
>>   partitions and then COPY data to it.  Checking the log I see that
>>   several partitions have already been copied finished, but many more
>>   are left to start.
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>>   Why is a TRUNCATE needed at the start of a partition's COPY phase? I
>>   didn't issue a --clean on the command line (I don't need it as my
>>   database is newly created), and I don't see a mention of related
>>   TRUNCATE in the pg_restore manual.
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> --clean will drop the object entirely not TRUNCATE.
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> I'm guessing that this is being done by you per:
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> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/53760c70-4a87-a453-9e02-57abc9cb2e54%40gmx.net
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> "After each failed attempt, I need to issue a TRUNCATE table1,table2,...
> before I try again. "

Thanks Adrian. I'm now testing restore without --data-only. All I'm doing
prior to the above pg_restore command is "createdb -T template0 newdb".
It's possible though that I'm missing something here, the whole thing is
way more complicated than I expected...

Dimitris