Re: Can we get rid of repeated queries from pg_dump?

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 10:20:29AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com> writes:
> > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 10:02:07AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com> writes:
> >>> Wouldn't it be possible to get all type formats at once, and cache them
> >>> in pg_dump? Or at the very least reuse already received information?
> 
> >> Send a patch ...
> 
> > Yeah, that's not going to work, my C skills are next-to-none :(
> > I guess I'll have to wait till someone else will assume it's a problem,
> > someone with skills to do something about it.
> 
> Well, you could move it forward by doing the legwork to identify which
> queries are worth merging.  Is it really sane to do a global "select

Sure. On it. Will report back when I'll have more info.

Best regards,

depesz