Re: Option to dump foreign data in pg_dump - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 5:22 PM Luis Carril <luis.carril@swarm64.com> wrote:

Can you have a look at dump with parallel option. Parallel option will
take a lock on table while invoking lockTableForWorker. May be this is
not required for foreign tables.
Thoughts?

I tried with -j and found no issue. I guess that the foreign table needs locking anyway to prevent anyone to modify it while is being dumped.

I'm able to get the problem with the following steps:

Bring up a postgres setup with servers running in 5432 & 5433 port.

Execute the following commands in Server1 configured on 5432 port:

• CREATE EXTENSION postgres_fdw;

• CREATE SERVER foreign_server FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER postgres_fdw OPTIONS (host '127.0.0.1', port '5433', dbname 'postgres');
  

• create user user1 password '123';

• alter user user1 with superuser;

• CREATE USER MAPPING FOR user1 SERVER foreign_server OPTIONS (user 'user1', password '123');

Execute the following commands in Server2 configured on 5433 port:

• create user user1 password '123';

• alter user user1 with superuser;

Execute the following commands in Server2 configured on 5433 port as user1 user:

• create schema test;

• create table test.test1(id int);

• insert into test.test1 values(10);

Execute the following commands in Server1 configured on 5432 port as user1 user:

• CREATE FOREIGN TABLE foreign_table1 (id integer NOT NULL) SERVER foreign_server OPTIONS (schema_name 'test', table_name 'test1');

Without parallel option, the operation is successful:

• ./pg_dump -d postgres -f dumpdir -U user1 -F d  --include-foreign-data foreign_server

With parallel option it fails:

• ./pg_dump -d postgres -f dumpdir1 -U user1 -F d -j 5 --include-foreign-data foreign_server

pg_dump: error: could not obtain lock on relation "public.foreign_table1"
This usually means that someone requested an ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock on the table after the pg_dump parent process had gotten the initial ACCESS SHARE lock on the table.
pg_dump: error: a worker process died unexpectedly

There may be simpler steps than this to reproduce the issue, i have not try to optimize it.

Regards,

Vignesh

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