Thread: Parallel pg_basebackup

Parallel pg_basebackup

From
Emanuel Calvo
Date:

Hi guys,

I was wondering if there is a proposal for parallelize pg_basebackup (sorry if there is already one, I looked into the inbox and did not find any).

I made a simple test and the performance gain is pretty considerable using parallel rsync processes vs. single pg_basebackup.

i.e., for 46GB of data I had the following results:

rsync, parallel, including the xlogs
real 18m52.674s    
user 33m54.728s
sys 13m44.604s

(-x option)
real    23m26.802s     
user    0m24.392s
sys     3m55.116s


Actually, AWS services limits the bandwidth per process but if you have parallel processes, none of them will have the IOPS decreased which will be translated in a great improvement. Also the network bandwidth is strong between the regions.

Thanks guys!


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Emanuel Calvo

Re: Parallel pg_basebackup

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 10:51 -0300, Emanuel Calvo wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a proposal for parallelize pg_basebackup

There isn't one, but after some talk behind the scenes, I think we
should definitely look into it.




Re: Parallel pg_basebackup

From
Emanuel Calvo
Date:

That looks promising! Thanks Peter!


2013/8/24 Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 10:51 -0300, Emanuel Calvo wrote:
> I was wondering if there is a proposal for parallelize pg_basebackup

There isn't one, but after some talk behind the scenes, I think we
should definitely look into it.




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Emanuel Calvo