Re: pgdump slowness

On 9/12/19 10:35 AM, Dhandapani Shanmugam wrote:

Hi Guys,

We are having wired issue. pg_dump taking more time to backup 320 GB of table,the table has bytea data type with TOAST table associated it. Please let me know, if this is the expected behavior of pg_dump or do i need to tune any of the parameters.  I tried to run pg_dump with parallel -j option , still no improvement and there is no lock on the table as well. any inputs are welcome

It took 16 hours to dump a 3TB v8.4 database that's full of bytea fields, using the 9.6 pg_dump with 8 threads.  This was from one DC to another across a 10GB WAN link.

Note that I disabled compression because the bytea fields contained non-compressible images.  Thus, the dump size was 2.2x larger than the actual database.

With compression enabled, the dump took a lot longer (though I didn't record those numbers).

Ron