Re: pg_dump versus hash partitioning

On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 08:43:56AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 07:39:12PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Yeah, we need to do both.  Attached find an updated patch series:
>
> > I didn't find a CF entry, is it intended?
>
> Yeah, it's there:
>
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/42/4226/

Ah thanks!  I was looking for "pg_dump" in the page.

> > I'm not sure if you intend to keep the current 0002 - 0003 separation, but if
> > yes the part about te->defn and possible fallback should be moved to 0003.  In
> > 0002 we're only looking at the COPY statement.
>
> I was intending to smash it all into one commit --- the separation is
> just to ease review.

Ok, no problem then and I agree it's better to squash them.

> > I know you're only inheriting this comment, but isn't it well outdated and not
> > accurate anymore?  I'm assuming that "archiving is not on" was an acceptable
> > way to mean "wal_level < archive" at some point, but it's now completely
> > misleading.
>
> Sure, want to propose wording?

Just mentioning the exact wal_level, something like

                     * [...].  If wal_level is set to minimal this prevents
                     * WAL-logging the COPY.  This obtains a speedup similar to
                     * [...]


> > More generally, I also think that forcing --load-via-partition-root for
> > known unsafe partitioning seems like the best compromise.  I'm not sure if we
> > should have an option to turn it off though.
>
> I think the odds of that yielding a usable dump are nil, so I don't
> see why we should bother.

No objection from me.