"Kevin Grittner" <kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> writes: > "Kevin Grittner" <kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> wrote: >> Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> Did you happen to notice anything about pg_dump's memory >>> consumption? > I took a closer look, and there's some bad news, I think. The above > numbers were from the ends of the range. I've gone back over and > found that while it dropped about 2.1 GB almost immediately, cache > usage slowly dropped throughout the dump, and bottomed at about 6.9 > GB below baseline.
OK, that's still not very scary --- it just means my off-the-cuff estimate of 1:1 space usage was bad. 3:1 isn't that surprising either given padding and other issues. The representation of ArchiveEntries could probably be made a bit more compact ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers