Re: Restoring from PostgreSQL 9.5 dump to 10 is super slow - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Restoring from PostgreSQL 9.5 dump to 10 is super slow
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Msg-id 20190507154429.rlqm22vpdi5cocco@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Restoring from PostgreSQL 9.5 dump to 10 is super slow  (Siddharth Karandikar <siddharth.karandikar@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Restoring from PostgreSQL 9.5 dump to 10 is super slow
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Hi,

On 2019-05-07 18:04:04 +0530, Siddharth Karandikar wrote:
> But before reaching there I had done following config changes
>   - maintenance_work_mem 1GB
>   - autovacuum off

unlikely to matter for a bulk load.


>   - synchronous_commit off

unlikely to matter for a bulk load.


>   - shared_buffers=4GB
> 
> And finally I explicitly set wal_buffers = 128MB becasue with -1 it
> was calculating it to be just 16MB.
> 
> With above configurations, pg9.5 dump of large tables could be
> restored on pg10 in just `94m31.869s` - this is huge improvement
> compared to 831m25.539s that I was getting before.
> Yay!!
> 
> Still not sure why it just worked on to restore on pg9.5 without any
> of these config changes.

Ah, I bet the wal_level is different in the two clusters. The default in
9.5 wasn't usable for replication and hot backups. But the newer one
also has increased overhead in precisely one case - when loading data
into a new table.  Try setting wal_level = minimal in 10.


> And also not sure if this is the best performance that one can get.
> Will making wal_buffers 512MB improve it?

Extremely unlikely.

Regards,

Andres



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