Re: More 8.2 client issues (Was: [Slow dump?) - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: More 8.2 client issues (Was: [Slow dump?)
Date
Msg-id 13359.1167844898@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: More 8.2 client issues (Was: [Slow dump?)  (Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com>)
Responses Re: More 8.2 client issues (Was: [Slow dump?)
List pgsql-performance
Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com> writes:
> Guillaume Smet wrote:
>> Could you set log_min_duration_statement=0 on your server and enable

> Heh, unfortunately, setting log_min_duration_statement=0 would be a
> total last resort as the last we counted (2 months ago) we were doing
> approximately 3 million transactions per hour.

Do it just for the pg_dump:

    export PGOPTIONS="--log_min_duration_statement=0"
    pg_dump ...

I don't think that the regex issue explains pg_dump being slow,
unless perhaps you are making use of the table-selection switches?

            regards, tom lane

pgsql-performance by date:

Previous
From: Erik Jones
Date:
Subject: Re: More 8.2 client issues (Was: [Slow dump?)
Next
From: "Jeremy Haile"
Date:
Subject: Performance of PostgreSQL on Windows vs Linux