Re: Dump/Reload pg_statistic to cut time from pg_upgrade?

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:46:26PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jerry Sievers <gsievers19@comcast.net> writes:
> > Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@ymail.com> writes:
> >> Jerry Sievers <gsievers19@comcast.net> wrote:
> >>> Planning to pg_upgrade some large (3TB) clusters using hard link
> >>> method.� Run time for the upgrade itself takes around 5 minutes.
> >>> Unfortunately the post-upgrade analyze of the entire cluster is going
> >>> to take a minimum of 1.5 hours running several threads to analyze all
> >>> tables.� This was measured in an R&D environment.
>
> At least for some combinations of source and destination server
> versions, it seems like it ought to be possible for pg_upgrade to just
> move the old cluster's pg_statistic tables over to the new, as though
> they were user data.  pg_upgrade takes pains to preserve relation OIDs
> and attnums, so the key values should be compatible.  Except in
> releases where we've added physical columns to pg_statistic or made a
> non-backward-compatible redefinition of statistics meanings, it seems
> like this should Just Work.  In cases where it doesn't work, pg_dump
> and reload of that table would not work either (even without the
> anyarray problem).

Yes, we could certainly do that, but since 9.2 creates an incremental
statistics build script, I need someone to say that is too slow before I
code up something more complex.

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