X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9DDC9FA5C8 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:16:26 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 73520-03 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:16:22 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C44109FA3D7 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:16:22 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id a2so543522ugf for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:16:20 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=Lq+UYRfb2HN57Jj/tAchq4Mz1wwPLCo854I0pj8KS1A/OGtoVsUoF5VrwWesyc9Uy2F4wBrlZMqrMZcA+K6wAS74EsLrqOpHwA6ziXahPUk55SPbDsLvOH8zi80kG8rpzXsoEtk36E+pGmR2OHyIT8vqsgcwksWacTHkaXKxmrU= Received: by 10.66.216.6 with SMTP id o6mr1062230ugg; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:16:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.216.11 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:16:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:16:19 -0400 From: "John Vincent" Reply-To: pgsql-performance@lusis.org To: "Scott Marlowe" Subject: Re: Performance of pg_dump on PGSQL 8.0 Cc: "PGSQL Performance" In-Reply-To: <1150319015.26538.45.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_12490_12012128.1150319779973" References: <44902165.7020502@lusis.org> <1150303450.26538.9.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> <1150319015.26538.45.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 899db6d545f6b27b X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200606/274 X-Sequence-Number: 19631 ------=_Part_12490_12012128.1150319779973 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline time gzip -6 claDW_PGSQL.test.bak real 3m4.360s user 1m22.090s sys 0m6.050s Which is still less time than it would take to do a compressed pg_dump. On 6/14/06, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > How long does gzip take to compress this backup? > > On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 15:59, John Vincent wrote: > > Okay I did another test dumping using the uncompressed backup on the > > system unloaded and the time dropped down to 8m for the backup. > > There's still the size issue to contend with but as I said, I've got a > > fair bit of space left on the SAN to work with. > ------=_Part_12490_12012128.1150319779973 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline time gzip -6 claDW_PGSQL.test.bak

real    3m4.360s
user    1m22.090s
sys     0m6.050s

Which is still less time than it would take to do a compressed pg_dump.

On 6/14/06, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com> wrote:
How long does gzip take to compress this backup?

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 15:59, John Vincent wrote:
> Okay I did another test dumping using the uncompressed backup on the
> system unloaded and the time dropped down to 8m for the backup.
> There's still the size issue to contend with but as I said, I've got a
> fair bit of space left on the SAN to work with.

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