Re: Can we get rid of repeated queries from pg_dump?

From: Gus Spier <gus(dot)spier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: depesz(at)depesz(dot)com, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Can we get rid of repeated queries from pg_dump?
Date: 2021-08-29 11:35:21
Message-ID: CAG8xniczgQ9sK7oYObf_Y6Ppbbu53KEanRR+KWDJkZRkp3GsYQ@mail.gmail.com
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You guys are brilliant!

Regards,

Gus

On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 6:26 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Here is a second patch, quite independent of the first one, that
> gets rid of some other repetitive queries. On the regression database,
> the number of queries needed to do "pg_dump -s regression" drops from
> 3260 to 2589, and on my machine it takes 1.8 sec instead of 2.1 sec.
>
> What's attacked here is a fairly silly decision in getPolicies()
> to query pg_policy once per table, when we could do so just once.
> It might have been okay if we skipped the per-table query for
> tables that lack policies, but it's not clear to me that we can
> know that without looking into pg_policy. In any case I doubt
> this is ever going to be less efficient than the original coding.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
>

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