Re: pg_dump with 1100 schemas being a bit slow

Loic,

>settings up each time. The added benefit of doing a per schema dump is
>that I provide it to the users directly, that way they have a full
>export of their data.

you should try the timing with

pg_dump --format=c completedatabase.dmp

and then generating the separte schemas in an extra step like

pg_restore --schema=%s --file=outputfilename.sql completedatabase.dmp

I found that even with maximum compression

pg_dump --format=c --compress=9

the pg_dump compression was quicker then dump + gzip/bzip/7z compression
afterwards.

And after the dumpfile is created, pg_restore will leave your database
alone.
(make sure to put completedatabase.dmp on a separate filesystem). You can
even try to run more then one pg_restore --file in parallel.

Best wishes,

Harald

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