Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> writes: > I don't see the point of the sort-by-relpages code. The order the objects > are dumped should be irrelevant, as long as you obey the restrictions > dictated by dependencies. Or is it only needed for the multiple-target-dirs > feature? Frankly I don't see the point of that, so it would be good to cull > it out at least in this first stage.
>From the talk at CHAR(10), and provided memory serves, it's an optimisation so that you're doing largest file in a process and all the little file in other processes. In lots of case the total pg_dump duration is then reduced to about the time to dump the biggest files. Regards, -- Dimitri Fontaine http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
