Re: Pg_upgrade speed for many tables

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>> Magnus reported that a customer with a million tables was finding
>> pg_upgrade slow.
>
> You sure there's not an O(N^2) issue in there somewhere?

There certainly will be before he gets to a million, but it probably
doesn't show up yet testing at 2000.

He will probably have to hack pg_dump, as discussed here:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2012-09/msg00003.php


>
>> I don't see anything unsafe about having pg_upgrade use
>> synchronous_commit=off.
>
> No objection, but this seems unlikely to be better than linear speedup,
> with a not-terribly-large constant factor.
>
> BTW, does pg_upgrade run pg_restore in --single-transaction mode?
> That would probably make synchronous_commit moot, at least for that
> step.

Doing that might make the sync problem better, but would make the N^2
problem worse if upgrading to <= 9.2 .

Cheers,

Jeff