Re: Pg 16: will pg_dump & pg_restore be faster?

On Wed, 31 May 2023 at 08:54, Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-16-beta-1-released-2643/
> says "PostgreSQL 16 can also improve the performance of concurrent bulk
> loading of data using COPY up to 300%."
>
> Since pg_dump & pg_restore use COPY (or something very similar), will the
> speed increase translate to higher speeds for those utilities?

I think the improvements to relation extension only help when multiple
backends need to extend the relation at the same time.  pg_restore can
have multiple workers, but the tasks that each worker performs are
only divided as far as an entire table, i.e. 2 workers will never be
working on the same table at the same time. So there is no concurrency
in terms of 2 or more workers working on loading data into the same
table at the same time.

It might be an interesting project now that we have TidRange scans, to
have pg_dump split larger tables into chunks so that they can be
restored in parallel.

David