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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Performance issues during pg_restore -j with big partitioned table
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2025 12:45:25 -0400
Message-ID: <CANzqJaD0+Mex1tCj6i0SbQK0Z3urqYYN5GUC=7PntGe4DNVgtQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM Dimitrios Apostolou <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello list.
>
> My database includes one table with 1000 partitions, all of them rather
> sizeable. I run:
>
>    pg_restore -j12 --no-tablespaces --disable-triggers --exit-on-error
> --no-owner --no-privileges -n public -d newdb custom_format_dump.pgdump
>
> Right now after 24h of restore, I notice weird behaviour, so I have
> several questions about it:
>
> + 11 postgres backend processes are sleeping as "TRUNCATE TABLE waiting".
>    I see that they are waiting to issue a TRUNCATE for one of the
>    partitions and then COPY data to it.  Checking the log I see that
>    several partitions have already been copied finished, but many more
>    are left to start.
>
>    Why is a TRUNCATE needed at the start of a partition's COPY phase? I
>    didn't issue a --clean on the command line (I don't need it as my
>    database is newly created), and I don't see a mention of related
>    TRUNCATE in the pg_restore manual.
>

TRUNCATE statements inside of "toc.dat" files?  I'm skeptical.

Are you maybe doing something else in that database besides pg_restore?

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