Re: speed up full table scan using psql

On 5/30/23 21:25, Lian Jiang wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I am using psql to periodically dump the postgres tables into json files 
> which are imported into snowflake. For large tables (e.g. 70M rows), it 

The command you are using is?

Postgres version?

> takes hours for psql to complete. Using spark to read the postgres table 
> seems not to work as the postgres read only replication is the 
> bottleneck so spark cluster never uses >1 worker node and the working 
> node timeout or out of memory.
> 
> Will vertical scaling the postgres db speed up psql? Or any thread 
> related parameter of psql can help? Thanks for any hints.
> 
> Regards
> Lian

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