Re: Max tables in a cluster?

On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 12:37:41PM +0530, Karthik Krishnakumar wrote:
> Is there a limit to number of tables that a cluster can support?

Well, yes.

For starters: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/limits.html

But more important is: with large number of tables certain operations
become VERY slow. Specifically getting schema dump. Which is used, for
example, by pg_upgrade.

In my experience hitting 1 million rows in pg_class made it
realistically impossible to use pg_dump. But there have been
many improvements to pg_dump over the years
(https://why-upgrade.depesz.com/show?from=9.5&to=15.2&keywords=pg_dump)
to it's possible that the problem is gone now.

Try taking `pg_dump -s` of the db, and see how long it takes...

Best regards,

depesz