Re: pg_dump order of operation

On 08/26/2018 10:24 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> writes:
>> In v8.4, I noticed that the tables seemed to be dumped in alphabetical
>> order.  Not so much, though, in a multithreaded 9.6 dump of an 8.4 database;
>> there's no pattern that I can discern.
>> In what order does the 9.6 pg_dump dump tables?
> I don't believe the ordering rules have changed materially since 8.4;
> it's intended to be by object kind, and within that by name, except
> where dependencies force doing something else.

I thought that didn't matter, since FK and PK constraints were added (in the 
required order) after all data was loaded).

> But what are you thinking constitutes the "dump order" in a parallel dump?

I don't understand your question.


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