Re: Parallel pg_dump for 9.1

From: "Pierre C" <lists(at)peufeu(dot)com>
To: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Stefan Kaltenbrunner" <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
Cc: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "Joachim Wieland" <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Parallel pg_dump for 9.1
Date: 2010-03-30 11:56:45
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:01:54 +0200, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
wrote:

> On tis, 2010-03-30 at 08:39 +0200, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>> on fast systems pg_dump is completely CPU bottlenecked
>
> Might be useful to profile why that is. I don't think pg_dump has
> historically been developed with CPU efficiency in mind.

Already done that (I had posted some WIP patches to speed up COPY,
hopefully I'll have time to finish those one day ;)
Most of the time spent in the postmaster process during "COPY TO" is in
the datum -> string functions.

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