From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, José Arthur Benetasso Villanova <jose(dot)arthur(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: directory archive format for pg_dump |
Date: | 2010-12-16 22:34:02 |
Message-ID: | 4D0A93DA.30308@enterprisedb.com |
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On 17.12.2010 00:29, Andres Freund wrote:
> On Thursday 16 December 2010 19:33:10 Joachim Wieland wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Heikki Linnakangas
>>
>> <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>> As soon as we have parallel pg_dump, the next big thing is going to be
>>> parallel dump of the same table using multiple processes. Perhaps we
>>> should prepare for that in the directory archive format, by allowing the
>>> data of a single table to be split into multiple files. That way
>>> parallel pg_dump is simple, you just split the table in chunks of
>>> roughly the same size, say 10GB each, and launch a process for each
>>> chunk, writing to a separate file.
>>
>> How exactly would you "just split the table in chunks of roughly the
>> same size" ? Which queries should pg_dump send to the backend? If it
>> just sends a bunch of WHERE queries, the server would still scan the
>> same data several times since each pg_dump client would result in a
>> seqscan over the full table.
> I would suggest implementing< > support for tidscans and doing it in segment
> size...
I don't think there's any particular gain from matching the server's
data file segment size, although 1GB does sound like a good chunk size
for this too.
--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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