Hi. When pg_dump runs, our application becomes inoperative (too
slow). I was going to ask if nice'ing the postgres backend process
that handles the COPY would help but I just realized probably the
pg_dump takes out locks when it runs and nice'ing it would just make
it run longer...
However the man page says "pg_dump does not block other users
accessing the database (readers or writers)." But if we run a
pg_dump, the phone starts ringing, users are complaining that the web
app is not working.
Would appreciate some pointer to help me reconcile these two
apparently contradictory facts.
Best,
-at
