Re: Pg_upgrade speed for many tables

On Mon, Nov  5, 2012 at 03:30:32PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> BTW, does pg_upgrade run pg_restore in --single-transaction mode?
> >> That would probably make synchronous_commit moot, at least for that
> >> step.
>
> > It doesn't use pg_restore at all - it uses the dump from pg_dumpall, which
> > you can't reload with pg_restore.
>
> Sorry, I should've said psql --single-transaction.  Although that isn't
> going to work either given the presence of \connect commands in the
> script.  I wonder whether pg_dumpall ought to have some sort of "one
> transaction per database please" option.

pg_dumpall is already doing lots of gymnastics with SQL, and pg_upgrade
splits the output file into db/user creation and object creation, so I
am hesitant to add anything more in there.