Re: Pg_upgrade speed for many tables - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Pg_upgrade speed for many tables
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Msg-id CA+TgmoZE9re47+F9m6EuuJamvCa38Yi6M7Qs4WOGdbfXBXThgw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Pg_upgrade speed for many tables  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Pg_upgrade speed for many tables  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Re: Pg_upgrade speed for many tables  (Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>)
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On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> AFAIR any transaction that modifies catalogs gets sync commit forcibly,
> regardless of the setting.  And sync commit means you get to wait for
> all previous transactions to be flushed as well.  So simply creating a
> temp table ought to do the trick ...

I don't think there's a carve-out for system tables ... but creating a
temp table with synchronous_commit=on will certainly do the trick.

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Robert Haas
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