Re: pg_upgrade: Pass -j down to vacuumdb - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jesper Pedersen
Subject Re: pg_upgrade: Pass -j down to vacuumdb
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Msg-id c448acf6-7c38-3d6d-c663-5387ccffb906@redhat.com
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In response to RE: pg_upgrade: Pass -j down to vacuumdb  ("Jamison, Kirk" <k.jamison@jp.fujitsu.com>)
Responses RE: pg_upgrade: Pass -j down to vacuumdb  ("Jamison, Kirk" <k.jamison@jp.fujitsu.com>)
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Hi Kirk,

On 1/24/19 9:31 PM, Jamison, Kirk wrote:
> According to CF app, this patch needs review so I took a look at it.
> Currently, your patch applies and builds cleanly, and all tests are also successful
> based from the CF bot patch tester.
> 
> I'm not sure if I have understood the argument raised by Peter correctly.
> Quoting Peter, "it's not clear that pg_upgrade and vacuumdb are bound the same way, so it's not a given that the same
-jnumber should be used."
 
> I think it's whether the # jobs for pg_upgrade is used the same way for parallel vacuum.
> 
> According to the official docs, the recommended setting for pg_upgrade --j option is the maximum of the number of CPU
coresand tablespaces. [1]
 
> As for vacuumdb, parallel vacuum's (-j) recommended setting is based from your max_connections [2], which is the max
#of concurrent connections to your db server.
 
>

Thanks for your feedback !

As per Peter's comments I have changed the patch (v2) to not pass down 
the -j option to vacuumdb.

Only an update to the documentation and console output is made in order 
to make it more clear.

Best regards,
  Jesper


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