Re: [PERFORM] Backup taking long time !!! - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Jim Nasby
Subject Re: [PERFORM] Backup taking long time !!!
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Msg-id 1ddb6452-b5c0-9ee7-7f76-cdca5563a60b@BlueTreble.com
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In response to Re: [PERFORM] Backup taking long time !!!  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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On 1/23/17 9:27 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> If you want my 2c on that, running with BLKSZ <> 8192 is playing with
> fire, or at least running with scissors.

I've never seen it myself, but I'm under the impression that it's not
unheard of for OLAP environments. Given how sensitive PG is to IO
latency a larger block size could theoretically mean a big performance
improvement in some scenarios.
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