Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > While investigating a client problem I just observed that pg_dump takes > a surprisingly large amount of time to dump a schema with a large number > of views. The client's hardware is quite spiffy, and yet pg_dump is > taking many minutes to dump a schema with some 35,000 views. Here's a > simple test case:
> create schema views; > do 'begin for i in 1 .. 10000 loop execute $$create view views.v_$$ > || i ||$$ as select current_date as d, current_timestamp as ts, > $_$a$_$::text || n as t, n from generate_series(1,5) as n$$; end > loop; end;'; > On my modest hardware this database took 4m18.864s for pg_dump to run. It takes about that on my machine too ... with --enable-cassert. oprofile said that 90% of the runtime was going into AllocSetCheck, so I rebuilt without cassert, and the runtime dropped to 16 seconds. What were you testing? (Without cassert, it looks like LockReassignCurrentOwner is the next biggest time sink; I'm wondering if there's some sort of O(N^2) behavior in there.) 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