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From: Sam Stearns <[email protected]>
To: Pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Cc: Henry Ashu <[email protected]>
Cc: Avi Vallarapu <[email protected]>
Subject: pg_dump -j
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 07:33:48 -0800
Message-ID: <CAN6TVjmRACGXcz3XoiOKw3ws1tBs_bnwa3AD==vyxmEdUJ=z_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Howdy,

Would someone be able to advise on the correct setting for the -j option of
pg_dump to run the dump in parallel, please?  Is it based on CPU count, or
something else?  The output of nproc is 32.

Thank you,

Sam

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