From: | Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> |
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To: | Robert Burgholzer <rburghol(at)vt(dot)edu>, pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL Dump rate is too slow |
Date: | 2015-01-08 13:58:11 |
Message-ID: | 844546511.3807408.1420725491363.JavaMail.yahoo@jws10097.mail.ne1.yahoo.com |
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Robert Burgholzer <rburghol(at)vt(dot)edu> wrote:
> To elaborate, I have found the rsync used in my (most?) streaming
> replication setups is 10x or more faster than pg_dump. If your
> job specs required a pg_dump output file it would be fairly simple
> to do the following (moree or less):
> 1. setup a replicant (even on the same machine but different
> drive if you wanted)
> 2. make sure the replicant is off
> 3. rsync the data dir to the replicant
> 4. turn on the replicant
> 5. execute pg_dump on the replicant
If the original cluster is running, unless the steps for a PITR
backup are followed, that rsync could generated a corrupted
database. The corruption may not be immediately apparent, and
might not happen every time, but the above is not safe without a
few more steps.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/continuous-archiving.html
This is not intended as a complete list, but among other things
archiving should be working first, the rsync should exclude the
postmaster.pid file and the files under the pg_xlog directory,
rsync should be preceded by pg_start_backup() and followed by
pg_stop_backup(), and a recovery.conf file is needed.
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Kevin Grittner
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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