Re: improve performance of pg_dump with many sequences

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 06:13:48PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> That would be a fine argument were it not that collectSequences()
>> tries to vacuum up the data for every sequence in the DB, whether
>> the user has asked to dump them all or not.

> I meant that we could teach pg_dump to error in dumpSequenceData() if it
> sees nulls for the sequence in question.

Ah, gotcha; I thought you were talking about changing
pg_get_sequence_data() to throw an error instead of returning nulls.

            regards, tom lane