Ron Johnson wrote:
> I think I've read that there are multi-hundred GB PostgreSQL
> databases.
>
> Since pg_dump is single-threaded, how long does it take to back up
> such a database?
The evasive answer is that you probably don't run regular full pg_dump
on such databases.
> Are there any plans of making a multi-threaded, or even
> multi-process pg_dump?
What do you hope to accomplish by that? pg_dump is not CPU bound.
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Peter Eisentraut
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